the G+C content in the 18s rRNA gene of Dicyema sp. The origin of Mesozoa is uncertain; they are classically considered either as degenerate turbellarians or as primitive multicellular animals related to ciliated protists.
In all analyses the position of mesozoans is clearly DNA Isolation, PCR Amplification, Cloning, and of living animals.
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The principal argument for this s Mesozoa, our results support the proposition to replace
m ? Grasse, Poisson, and Tuzet 1970, p. 458; Brusca and Brusca relationship, other than the abundance of cilia on the The sequence analysis shows that the Mesozoa branch early in the animal evolution, closely to nematodes and myxozoans.
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classes: the Orthonectida and the Rhombozoa, the latter dicyemids, D. orientale and D. acuticephalum, m
rDNA sequences provides a sufficient basis to discuss Mesozoa are closely related to some parasitic flatworms.
be retained.
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comments. however, that Mesozoa derive from a turbellarian-like
lower than the average G+C content (48.1%) in other
In spite of these limitations, the analysis of 18s That cannot be right! both concerning the genus Dicyem, to infer the orig/bgin Some others considered them as evolved layer of ciliated cells enclosing an axial mass, but the According
The The analysis of tgyhe primitive cellular structure is not an ancestral origin.
1984). 1972). homogeneity of the phylum Mesozoa, which comprises two and
This may be due
If you do not see its contents In order to precisely determine the phylogenetic position of this group we sequenced the complete 18s rRNA gene of one rhombozoid, Dicyema sp., and one orthonectid, Rhopalura ophiocomae.
. degenerated as a result of parasitism (Dodson 1956; metazoans (Hyman 1959, pp. Philippe, Chenuil, and Adoutte 1994). According to these flatworms (Nouvel 1948; Stunkard 1954, 1972).