Branchiopoda

Other Names for Branchiopoda

• Conchostraca

References

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Crease, T. J. and D. J. Taylor. 1998. The origin and evolution of variable-region helices in V4 and V7 of the small-subunit ribosomal RNA of branchiopod crustaceans. Molecular Biology and Evolution 15:1430-1446.

deWaard, J. R., V. Sacherova, M. E. A. Cristescu, E. A. Remigio, T. J. Crease, and P. D. N. Hebert. 2006. Probing the relationships of the branchiopod crustaceans. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 39(2):491-502.

Fryer, G. 1999. A comment on a recent phylogenetic analysis of certain orders of the branchiopod crustacea. Crustaceana 72:1039-1050.

Fryer, G. 2001. The elucidation of branchiopod phylogeny. Crustaceana 74:105-114.

Fryer, G. 2002. Branchiopod phylogeny: Facing the facts. Crustaceana 75:85-88.

Hanner, R. and M. Fugate. 1997. Branchiopod phylogenetic reconstruction from 12S rDNA sequence data. Journal of Crustacean Biology 17:174-183.

Negrea, S., N. Botnariuc, and H. J. Dumont. 1999. Phylogeny, evolution and classification of the Branchiopoda (Crustacea). Hydrobiologia 412:191–212.

Olesen, J. 1998. A phylogenetic analysis of the Conchostraca and Cladocera (Crustacea, Branchiopoda, Diplostraca). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 122:491-536.

Olesen, J. 2000. An updated phylogeny of the Conchostraca-Cladocera clade (Branchiopoda, Diplostraca). Crustaceana 73:869-886.

Olesen, J. 2002. Branchiopod phylogeny - Continued morphological support for higher taxa like the Diplostraca and Cladocera, and for paraphyly of 'Conchostraca' and 'Spinicaudata'. Crustaceana 75:77-84.

Olesen, J., S. Richter, and G. Scholtz. 2001. The evolutionary transformation of phyllopodous to stenopodous limbs in the Branchiopoda (Crustacea) - Is there a common mechanism for early limb development in arthropods? International Journal of Developmental Biology 45:869-876.

Spears, T. and L. G. Abele. 2000. Branchiopod monophyly and interordinal phylogeny inferred from 18S ribosomal DNA. Journal of Crustacean Biology 20:1–24.

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Taylor, D. J., T. J. Crease, and W. M. Brown. 1999. Phylogenetic evidence for a single long-lived clade of crustacean cyclic parthenogens and its implications for the evolution of sex. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B 266:791-797.

Information on the Internet

• Cladocera. Chad Rowe and Paul Hebert.