MOLECULAR PLUS PHENOTYPIC. “When morphology meets molecular data in crinoid phylogeny: a challenge. Many clades of extant crinoids based on external skeleton morphology are polyphyletic. Using the hyocrinids and a recent extensive molecular phylogeny of the extant crinoids, we show that the molecular approach, when coupled with detailed ontogenetic analyses on a large sample of specimens and taxa, may help understand the evolutionary trends within a given group of organisms.”
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Nigel Fleming
September 21, 2022