Increasing species sampling in chelicerate genomic-scale datasets provides support for monophyly of Acari and Arachnida

oleh: Jesus Lozano-Fernandez, Alastair R. Tanner, Mattia Giacomelli, Robert Carton, Jakob Vinther, Gregory D. Edgecombe, Davide Pisani

Format: Article
Diterbitkan: Nature Portfolio 2019-05-01

Deskripsi

Morphological and molecular data have led to conflicting phylogenetic hypotheses for the Chelicerata. Here, the authors reconstruct the phylogeny of the Chelicerata using genomic-scale datasets, finding evidence for a monophyletic Acari and a single terrestrialisation of Arachnida.