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Damhnait McHugh
Researcher at Colgate University
Publications - 28
Citations - 1675
Damhnait McHugh is an academic researcher from Colgate University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Clitellata & Phylogenetics. The author has an hindex of 17, co-authored 28 publications receiving 1584 citations. Previous affiliations of Damhnait McHugh include Harvard University & Cornell University.
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Molecular evidence that echiurans and pogonophorans are derived annelids
TL;DR: This result, indicating the derived loss of segmentation in echiurans, has profound implications for the understanding of the evolution of metazoan body plans and challenges the traditional view of the phylum-level diversity and evolutionary relationships of protostome worms.
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Annelid phylogeny and the status of Sipuncula and Echiura
Torsten H. Struck,Torsten H. Struck,Nancy Schult,Tiffany Kusen,Emily Hickman,Christoph Bleidorn,Damhnait McHugh,Kenneth M. Halanych +7 more
TL;DR: Using multiple genes and explicit hypothesis testing, it is shown that Echiura, Siboglinidae, and Clitellata are derived annelid with polychaete sister taxa, and that Sipuncula should be included within annelids.
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A Biogeographical Perspective of the Deep-Sea Hydrothermal Vent Fauna
TL;DR: Hydrothermal vents provide a good testing ground for processes that control patterns in diversity, and faunas on two sides of the Pacific and in the Atlantic have closer relations to each other than to the nearby “normal” deep-sea fauna.
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Molecular phylogeny of the Annelida
TL;DR: Both molecular and morphological analyses support placement of the Siboglinidae (formerly the Pogonophora) as a derived group within the Annelida; there is also evidence, based on molecular analysis of the nuclear gene elongation factor-1α, that the unsegmented echiurids are derived annelids.
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Mitochondrial Genome and Nuclear Sequence Data Support Myzostomida As Part of the Annelid Radiation
Christoph Bleidorn,Igor Eeckhaut,Lars Podsiadlowski,Nancy Schult,Damhnait McHugh,Kenneth M. Halanych,Michel C. Milinkovitch,Ralph Tiedemann +7 more
TL;DR: The molecular data are in agreement with the morphological evidence that myzostomids are part of the annelid radiation and probably evolved from a segmented ancestor and gained a derived anatomy during their long evolutionary history as echinoderm symbionts.