Multigene and genomic data sets have become commonplace in the field of phylogenetics,
but many existing tools are not designed for such data sets, which often makes the analysis …

The phylogeny of Isopoda, a speciose order of crustaceans, remains unresolved, with
different data sets (morphological, nuclear, mitochondrial) often producing starkly …

Background Recent mitochondrial phylogenomics studies have reported a sister-group
relationship of the orders Capsalidea and Dactylogyridea, which is inconsistent with …

Background Species belonging to the genus Lernaea are cosmopolitan parasites that can
infect many different freshwater fish hosts. Due to a high degree of morphological …

Background As the topologies produced by previous molecular and morphological studies
were contradictory and unstable (polytomy), evolutionary relationships within the …

Stylommatophora is a main clade of Gastropoda that encompasses approximately 112
gastropod families and may exceed a total of 30,000 species. Twenty-four complete …

Recent mitogenomic studies have exposed a gene order (GO) shared by two classes, four
orders and 31 species ('common GO') within the flatworm subphylum Neodermata. There …

Abstract Background Diplozoidae are monogenean (Monogenea: Polyopisthocotylea) fish
parasites characterised by a unique life history: two larvae permanently fuse into an X …

Contrary to the early evidence, which indicated that the mitochondrial architecture in one of
the two major annelida clades, Sedentaria, is relatively conserved, a handful of relatively …

The mitogenome of Brentisentisyangtzensis is 13,864 bp in length and has the circular
structure typical of metazoans. It contains 36 genes: 22 transfer RNA genes (tRNAs), two …