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+[[!meta title="Phylogenomics offers resolution of major tunicate relationships."]]
+[[!tag Oikopleura tunicate evolution]]
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+Kocot KM, Tassia MG, Halanych KM, Swalla BJ.
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+Mol Phylogenet Evol. 2018 Apr;121:166-173. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2018.01.005
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+Phylogenomics offers resolution of major tunicate relationships.
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+[[!pmid 29330139 desc="A matrix of 798 genes totaling 254,865 amino acid positions places appendicularians as the sister group to all other tunicates."]]
clade is sister of Stolidobranchia (that is, not basal in Tunicates).
Stolidobranchia. Nevertheless, it might be an artefact of AT-richness or
long-branch attraction ([[Tsagkogeorga et al, 2009|biblio/19656395]]).
- - Studies based on 146 genes in 28 species ([[Delsuc et al., 2006|biblio/16495997]])
- and then 258 orthologous proteins from 63 species ([[Delsuc et al., 2018|biblio/29653534]])
+ - Studies based on 146 genes in 28 species ([[Delsuc et al., 2006|biblio/16495997]]),
+ on 798 genes in 28 species ([[Kocot and coll., 2018|biblio/29330139]]),
+ and 258 orthologous proteins from 63 species ([[Delsuc et al., 2018|biblio/29653534]])
show that Oikopleuridae is sister to all other tunicates.
- “The difference between coding sequences was considerably higher in
comparisons between strains of different oceans than within the Bergen gene