Comment on "Hexapod origins: monophyletic or paraphyletic?".

Frédéric Delsuc (1) , Matthew J Phillips (1) , David Penny (1)

1 Allan Wilson Center for Molecular Ecology and Evolution

Nardi et al. (Science, 21 March 2003, 1887) suggested that extant hexapods might be diphyletic based on the analysis of amino acids sequences of mitochondrial genes. However, improved phylogenetic analyses of nucleotide sequences (RY-coding) from the same genes consistently retrieve the classical hypothesis of hexapod monophyly.

Frédéric Delsuc, Matthew J Phillips, David Penny. Comment on "Hexapod origins: monophyletic or paraphyletic?".. Science, 2003, 301 (5639), 1482; author reply 1482. ⟨10.1126/science.1086558⟩. ⟨halsde-00192990⟩