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| | Comparative Morphology: Do the Ultrastructural Investigations of Loricifera and Tardigrada Support the Clade Ecdysozoa? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17) |
 | | In the many recent textbooks Panarthropoda (Arthropoda, Onychophora, Tardigrada) are regarded as a sister-group to Annelida in the taxon Articulata, but this view is not supported by molecular data. |
 | | Comparisons of these molecular data suggest that all taxa with ecdysis (Nematoda, Nematomorpha, Priapulida, Kinorhyncha, Loricifera and Panarthropoda) should be included in a monophylum Ecdysozoa. |
 | | In this case, the new morphological data on Loricifera and Tardigrada - based on ultrastructure and new TEM labelling technique - may indicate that the Cycloneuralia could be the sister group to Panarthropoda, and then the monophylum Ecdysozoa really exists, and the clade is not an "artifact" as some authors (including me) have stated. |
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