Acoel Flatworms Are Not Platyhelminthes: Evidence from Phylogenomics

Hervé Philippe; Henner Brinkmann; Pedro Martinez; Marta Riutort; Jaume Baguñà

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0000717

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Acoel Flatworms Are Not Platyhelminthes: Evidence from Phylogenomics

Hervé Philippe ,

*To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: herve.philippe@umontreal.ca (HP); jbaguna@ub.edu (JB)

Affiliation Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, Centre Robert-Cedergren, Département de Biochimie, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Québec, Canada
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Henner Brinkmann,

Affiliation Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, Centre Robert-Cedergren, Département de Biochimie, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Québec, Canada
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Pedro Martinez,

Affiliation Departament de Genètica, Facultat de Biologia, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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Marta Riutort,

Affiliation Departament de Genètica, Facultat de Biologia, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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Jaume Baguñà

*To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: herve.philippe@umontreal.ca (HP); jbaguna@ub.edu (JB)

Affiliation Departament de Genètica, Facultat de Biologia, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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Acoel Flatworms Are Not Platyhelminthes: Evidence from Phylogenomics

Hervé Philippe,
Henner Brinkmann,
Pedro Martinez,
Marta Riutort,
Jaume Baguñà

Published: August 8, 2007
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0000717

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get over it ...

Posted by tim_littlewood on 09 Aug 2007 at 22:19 GMT

With acoels most certainly not members of the Platyhelminthes, the plot thickens as to where they really are in the Tree of Life - hovering somewhere critically at the base of the Bilateria these little amorphous critters have a lot resting on their non-existent shoulders!

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