Phylogenomic analyses of the relationships
of Lophophorata and Myxozoa two enigmatic metazoan phyla
Dissertation
submitted for the degree of
Doctor rerum naturalium (Dr. rer. nat.)
to the Department Biology,
Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Natural Sciences,
University of Hamburg
U-H
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Maximilian Philip Nesnidal
from Bremen
Hamburg
2013
http://d-nb.info/1050748484
Table of contents
Abstract
Kurzfassung
List of Publications
Summary
Chapter 1
General Introduction
Taxon sampling
Lophophorata
Ectoprocta (Bryozoa)
Brachiopoda
Phoronida
Myxozoa
Phylogenetic hypotheses
Lophophorata
Myxozoa
Aims of the study
Summary of results
Conclusion
References
Acknowledgments
Declaration of Authorship
Authors' contributions
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Chapter 2
Hausdorf B, Helmkampf M, Nesnidal MP, Bruchhaus I. 2009.
Phylogenetic relationships within the lophophorate lineages
(Ectoprocta, Brachiopodaand Phoronida). Molecular Phylogenetics
and Evolution. 55:1121 -1127
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Chapter 3
Nesnidal MP, Helmkampf M, Bruchhaus I, Hausdorf B. 2010.
Compositional Heterogeneity and Phylogenomic Inference of
Metazoan Relationships. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 27(9):
2095-2104
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Chapter 4
Nesnidal MP, Helmkampf M, Bruchhaus I, Hausdorf B. 2011. The
complete mitochondrial genome of Flustra foliacea (Ectoprocta,
Cheilostomata) - compositional bias affects phylogenetic analyses
of lophotrochozoan relationships. BMC Genomics. 12: 572
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Chapter 5
Nesnidal MP, Helmkampf M, Bruchhaus I, El-Matbouli M,
Hausdorf B. 2013. Agent of Whirling Disease Meets Orphan Worm:
Phylogenomic Analyses Firmly Place Myxozoa in Cnidaria. PLoS
ONE. 8(1): e54576
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Chapter 6
Nesnidal MP, Helmkampf M, Meyer A, Witek A, Bruchhaus I,
Ebersberger I, Hankeln T, Lieb B, Struck TH, Hausdorf B. 2013.
New phylogenomic data support the monophyly of Lophophorata
and an Ectoproct-Phoronid clade and indicate that Polyzoa and
Kryptrochozoa are caused by systematic bias. BMC Evolutionary
Biology. 13:253
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Chapter 7
Nesnidal MP, Helmkampf M, Bruchhaus I, Ebersberg I, Hausdorf
B. 2014. Lophophorata monophyletic-after all. In Deep Metazoan
Phytogeny: The Backbone of the Tree of Life. Edited by Waegele
JW, Bartholomaeus T. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter; 2014
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Appendix
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