TY - JOUR
T1 - Phylogenetic analysis based on 18s ribosomal RNA gene sequences supports the existence of class polyacanthocephala (acanthocephala)
AU - García-Varela, Martín
AU - Cummings, Michael P.
AU - De León, Gerardo Pérez Ponce
AU - Gardner, Scott L.
AU - Laclette, Juan P.
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported in part by grants from CONACYT, L0042–M9607 (J.P.L.), DGAPA-UNAM IN-207195 (J.P.L.), PADEP 102324 (M.G.V.), and Fundación Miguel Alemán, A.C (J.P.L.). M.G.V. is being supported by scholarships from CONACYT and DGAPA-UNAM. M.P.C. is funded by grants from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the National Science Foundation, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. S.I.G. was supported by grant BSR-9024816, United States National Science Foundation. We thank Patricia de la Torre for technical assistance during DNA sequencing.
PY - 2002/1/1
Y1 - 2002/1/1
N2 - Members of phylum Acanthocephala are parasites of vertebrates and arthropods and are distributed worldwide. The phylum has traditionally been divided into three classes, Archiacanthocephala, Palaeacanthocephala, and Eoacanthocephala; a fourth class, Polyacanthocephala, has been recently proposed. However, erection of this new class, based on morphological characters, has been controversial. We sequenced the near complete 18S rRNA gene of Polyacanthorhynchus caballeroi (Polyacanthocephala) and Rhadinorhynchus sp. (Palaeacanthocephala); these sequences were aligned with another 21 sequences of acanthocephalans representing the three widely recognized classes of the phylum and with 16 sequences from outgroup taxa. Phylogenetic relationships inferred by maximum-likelihood and maximum-parsimony analyses showed Archiacanthocephala as the most basal group within the phylum, whereas classes Polyacanthocephala + Eoacanthocephala formed a monophyletic clade, with Palaeacanthocephala as its sister group. These results are consistent with the view of Polyacanthocephala representing an independent class within Acanthocephala.
AB - Members of phylum Acanthocephala are parasites of vertebrates and arthropods and are distributed worldwide. The phylum has traditionally been divided into three classes, Archiacanthocephala, Palaeacanthocephala, and Eoacanthocephala; a fourth class, Polyacanthocephala, has been recently proposed. However, erection of this new class, based on morphological characters, has been controversial. We sequenced the near complete 18S rRNA gene of Polyacanthorhynchus caballeroi (Polyacanthocephala) and Rhadinorhynchus sp. (Palaeacanthocephala); these sequences were aligned with another 21 sequences of acanthocephalans representing the three widely recognized classes of the phylum and with 16 sequences from outgroup taxa. Phylogenetic relationships inferred by maximum-likelihood and maximum-parsimony analyses showed Archiacanthocephala as the most basal group within the phylum, whereas classes Polyacanthocephala + Eoacanthocephala formed a monophyletic clade, with Palaeacanthocephala as its sister group. These results are consistent with the view of Polyacanthocephala representing an independent class within Acanthocephala.
KW - 18S rRNA
KW - Acanthocephala
KW - Polyacanthocephala
KW - Polyacanthorhynchus caballeroi
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U2 - 10.1016/S1055-7903(02)00020-9
DO - 10.1016/S1055-7903(02)00020-9
M3 - Article
C2 - 12069558
AN - SCOPUS:0035983980
VL - 23
SP - 288
EP - 292
JO - Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution
JF - Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution
SN - 1055-7903
IS - 2
ER -