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Evolution and taxonomy in capitate hydroids and medusae (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa)

K. W. Petersen
- 01 Oct 1990 - 
- Vol. 100, Iss: 2, pp 101-231
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In those families where the reduction of the medusa can be analysed, it is shown that the reduction occurred after all synapomorphies defining the genera had evolved and usually affected individual species within a genus rather than the original species from which the other species in the genus evolved.
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This article is published in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society.The article was published on 1990-10-01. It has received 139 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Capitata & Anthomedusae.

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Medusozoan Phylogeny and Character Evolution Clarified by New Large and Small Subunit rDNA Data and an Assessment of the Utility of Phylogenetic Mixture Models

TL;DR: A newly compiled data set of nearly complete sequences of the large subunit of the nuclear ribosome (LSU or 28S) sampled from 31 diverse medusozoans greatly clarifies the phylogenetic history of Cnidaria.
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Phylogeny of Medusozoa and the evolution of cnidarian life cycles

TL;DR: To investigate the evolution of cnidarian life cycles, data from the small subunit of the ribosome are used and indicate that Cnidaria is monophyletic and composed of Anthozoa and Medusozoa.
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Fauna of the Mediterranean Hydrozoa

TL;DR: This work is the most complete fauna of hydrozoans made in the Mediterranean, which includes planktonic hydromedusae, benthic polyps stages and the siphonophores.
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Cladistic analysis of Medusozoa and cnidarian evolution

TL;DR: A cladistic analysis of 87 morphological and life history characters of medusozoan cnidarians, rooted with Anthozoa, results in the phylogenetic hypothesis (Anthozoa (Hydrozoa (Scyphozoa) (StaurozoA, Cubozoa))) and a phylogenetic classification of Medusozoa that is consistent with phylogenetic hypotheses based on cladistic results, as well as those derived from 18S analyses.
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Phylogenetics : the theory and practice of phylogenetic systematics

Edward O. Wiley
- 01 Jul 1982 - 
TL;DR: This paper presents a systematic literature review of taxation alternatives to the PHYLOGENETIC system and some of the methods used, as well as some new ideas, that arose during this review.
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Synopsis of the Medusae of the world

TL;DR: This work was started many years ago in the form of a card-index for my own use, but later on it saved me time for my studies, and it was not difficult to keep it up to date.