[[!meta title="Phylogenetic analysis of phenotypic characters of Tunicata supports basal Appendicularia and monophyletic Ascidiacea"]]
-[[!tag to_read Oikopleura]]
+[[!tag Oikopleura]]
Katrin Braun, Fanny Leubner, Thomas Stach
Phylogenetic analysis of phenotypic characters of Tunicata supports basal Appendicularia and monophyletic Ascidiacea
-[[!doi 10.1111/cla.12405 desc="Places appendicularians basal in tunicates."]]
+[[!doi 10.1111/cla.12405 desc="Places appendicularians basal in tunicates. Detailed summary of past studies pro and con that placement."]]
and 210 single-copy orthogroups from 37 tunicates + 10 outgroups
[[DeBiasse and coll., 2020|biblio/32211845]] show that appendicularians are
sister to all other tunicates.
+ - Study of 117 phenotypic characters in 49 tunicate species also support basal
+ position of appendicularians ([[Braun, Leubner and Stach, 2019|biblio/10.1111_cla.12405]].
- “The difference between coding sequences was considerably higher in
comparisons between strains of different oceans than within the Bergen gene
pool. We ignore whether and how Oikopleura dioica is subdivided into multiple