Filogenia
Nature publicó ayer un nuevo análisis de las relaciones evolutivas profundas de los animales artrópodos*. Se han utilizado secuencias de 62 genes en 75 especies entre las que están la cucaracha común, la artemia, la cochinilla de la humedad, la escolopendra o la cacerola de las Molucas. Los resultados confirman las siguientes hipótesis:
-Los hexápodos (animales generalmente terrestres que incluyen a todos los insectos) están más emparentados con los crustáceos (generalmente acuáticos) que con los ciempiés y milpiés (también terrestres).
-Los hexápodos están más emparentados con
unos crustáceos que
con otros. Esto significa que surgieron de una rama del árbol evolutivo crustáceo. Los insectos, por tanto, descienden de crustáceos. Por otra parte, el clásico grupo
Crustacea no es taxonómicamente válido en el sistema actual. Tendría que incluir a todos los descendientes, y por tanto a los insectos. Los autores utilizan
Pancrustacea, propuesto años atrás.
*Jerome C. Regier
et al., 2010.
Arthropod relationships revealed by phylogenomic analysis of nuclear protein-coding sequences. Nature 463, 1079-1083 (25 February 2010) | doi:10.1038/nature08742.
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insectos,
filogenia,
crustáceos,
artrópodos
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Ecologically distinct dinosaurian sister group shows early diversification of Ornithodira
Nature 464, 95-98 (4 March 2010) | doi:10.1038/nature08718; Received 16 September 2009; Accepted 1 December 2009
The early evolutionary history of Ornithodira (avian-line archosaurs) has hitherto been documented by incomplete (Lagerpeton 1) or unusually specialized forms (pterosaurs and Silesaurus 2). Recently, a variety of Silesaurus-like taxa have been reported from the Triassic period of both Gondwana and Laurasia, but their relationships to each other and to dinosaurs remain a subject of debate3, 4, 5. Here we report on a new avian-line archosaur from the early Middle Triassic (Anisian) of Tanzania. Phylogenetic analysis places Asilisaurus kongwe gen. et sp. nov. as an avian-line archosaur and a member of the Silesauridae, which is here considered the sister taxon to Dinosauria. Silesaurids were diverse and had a wide distribution by the Late Triassic, with a novel ornithodiran bauplan including leaf-shaped teeth, a beak-like lower jaw, long, gracile limbs, and a quadrupedal stance. Our analysis suggests that the dentition and diet of silesaurids, ornithischians and sauropodomorphs evolved independently from a plesiomorphic carnivorous form. As the oldest avian-line archosaur, Asilisaurus demonstrates the antiquity of both Ornithodira and the dinosaurian lineage. The initial diversification of Archosauria, previously documented by crocodilian-line archosaurs in the Anisian6, can now be shown to include a contemporaneous avian-line radiation. The unparalleled taxonomic diversity of the Manda archosaur assemblage indicates that archosaur diversification was well underway by the Middle Triassic or earlier.
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