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Origin and Phylogeny of Metazoans as Reconstructed with rDNA Sequences

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Molecular Evolution: Towards the Origin of Metazoa

Part of the book series: Progress in Molecular and Subcellular Biology ((PMSB,volume 21))

Abstract

Today, students of zoology will find a large number of incompatible dendrograms of the major groups of metazoans in textbooks and articles (examples in Figs. 1 and 2) inferred from rDNA alignments. Discrepancies existed before molecular data were used: a long debate, for example, was the discussion on the monophyly of arthropods. S. Manton (1902–1979) advocated her hypotheses of polyphyly of arthropods on the basis of excellent morphological studies (e.g. Manton 1969, 1973) and it took many years of research, partly with new methods (e.g. Wheeler et al. 1993), until the majority of the scientific community accepted what was already well-founded decades before (e.g. Snodgrass 1950), namely that arthropods are with high probability monophyletic. The major source of uncertainty in comparative morphology is the lack of scientific concepts that allow a quantitative estimation of the quality (= information content) of characters and data sets. Only recently has the first author proposed that the terms “information content” and “data quality” are related to the probability of homology of the characters (Wägele 1996b).

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Wägele, J.W., Rödding, F. (1998). Origin and Phylogeny of Metazoans as Reconstructed with rDNA Sequences. In: Müller, W.E.G. (eds) Molecular Evolution: Towards the Origin of Metazoa. Progress in Molecular and Subcellular Biology, vol 21. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-72236-3_3

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  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-72236-3_3

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  • Print ISBN: 978-3-642-72238-7

  • Online ISBN: 978-3-642-72236-3

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

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