Zoology: Invertebrates that Parasitize Invertebrates

Gonzalo Giribet

doi:10.1016/j.cub.2016.05.040

Zoology: Invertebrates that Parasitize Invertebrates

Curr Biol. 2016 Jul 11;26(13):R537-R539. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2016.05.040.

Author

Gonzalo Giribet¹

Affiliation

¹ Museum of Comparative Zoology, Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, 26 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA. Electronic address: ggiribet@g.harvard.edu.

PMID: 27404242
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2016.05.040

Abstract

The genome of an orthonectid, a group of highly modified parasitic invertebrates, is drastically reduced and compact, yet it shows the bilaterian gene toolkit. Phylogenetic analyses place the enigmatic orthonectids within Spiralia, although their exact placement remains uncertain.

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MeSH terms

Animals
Host-Parasite Interactions*
Invertebrates / classification
Invertebrates / parasitology*
Invertebrates / physiology
Parasites / classification
Parasites / physiology*
Phylogeny
Sequence Analysis, DNA
Zoology