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      Phylogenetic relationships of Echinostoma Rudolphi, 1809 (Digenea: Echinostomatidae) and related genera re-assessed via DNA and morphological analyses.

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          In order to investigate the relationships within the Echinostomatidae two data sets of gene sequences were analysed. The first consisted of all previously published ND1 sequences (20) together with 17 new sequences. The latter represented six species from the cosmopolitan genera Echinostoma, Echinoparyphium, Hypoderaeum and Isthmiophora. The second data-set of ITS sequences again included all previously published sequences (12) and three new sequences from species of Echinostoma, Echinoparyphium and Isthmiophora. All new isolates, as well as voucher material from five previously sequenced isolates, were identified on the basis of morphological characters. The phylogenetic trees inferred from the ND1 data set helped to clarify the generic affiliation of all isolates and confirmed the morphological identifications. The only exception was Echinoparyphium aconiatum, whose current position in the genus Echinoparyphium was not supported by the sequence data. Although the ITS data provided insufficient resolution for an unequivocal solution to the relationships within the genus Echinostoma, it supported the identification of Echinoparyphium ellisi and the distinct species status of three isolates of Echinostoma revolutum as predicted from the ND1 data.

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          Journal
          Syst Parasitol
          Systematic parasitology
          Springer Science and Business Media LLC
          0165-5752
          0165-5752
          Mar 2003
          : 54
          : 3
          Affiliations
          [1 ] Department of Biodiversity, Central Laboratory of General Ecology, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2 Gagarin Street, 1113 Sofia, Bulgaria.
          Article
          5114435
          10.1023/a:1022681123340
          12652069
          8b23b477-6fe5-4096-a45c-75f79490b801
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