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Article: Molecular phylogeny of the model annelid ophryotrocha.
- Article from:
- The Biological Bulletin
- Article date:
- October 1, 2001
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THOMAS G. DAHLGREN (1,2) (*)
BERTIL AKESSON (2)
CHRISTOFFER SCHANDER (2,3)
KENNETH M. HALANYCH (1)
PER SUNDBERG (2)
Introduction
Marine annelids belonging to the group Ophryotrocha have been used as a laboratory system for much of this century (e.g., Bergh, 1895; Bergmann, 1903; Meek, 1912; Huth, 1933; Hartmann and Lewinski, 1940; Bacci and La Greca, 1953; Bacci, 1965; [Angstrom]kesson, 1972; Sella, 1988; Vitturi etal., 2000), not least because they are easy to maintain in cultures and have short generation times. Ophryotrocha has traditionally been treated as a genus within the eunicimorph family Dorvilleidae ...