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The Freshwater Mussels (Unionoida) of the World (and other less consequential bivalves)

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Publication Soroka & Burzynski (2017): cladograms
     publication summary | cladograms

Complete Citation

Soroka, M. & A. Burzynski. 2017. Hermaphroditic freshwater mussel Anodonta cygnea does not have supranumerary open reading frames in the mitogenome. Mitochondrial DNA Part B: Resources 2(2): 862-864. Available electronically.

Cladogram Figures

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Cladogram Figure 1
                 +-------- Cristaria_plicata          
           +-----+                                    
           |     |  +----- Anemina_arcaeformis        
           |     +--+                                 
           |        |  +-- Sinanodonta_woodiana       
           |        +--+                              
  +--------+           +-- Sinanodonta_lucida         
  |        |                                          
  |        |           +-- Anodonta_cygnea            
  |        |  +--------+                              
  |        |  |        +-- Anodonta_anatina           
  |        +--+                                       
  |           |  +-------- Platynaias_compressa       
  |           +--+                                    
  |              |  +----- Pyganodon_grandis          
--+              +--+                                 
  |                 |  +-- Utterbackia_imbecillis     
  |                 +--+                              
  |                    +-- Utterbackia_peninsularis   
  |                                                   
  |                    +-- Lanceolaria_lanceolata     
  |  +-----------------+                              
  |  |                 +-- Lanceolaria_grayii         
  |  |                                                
  +--+  +----------------- Lepidodesma_languilati     
     |  |                                             
     |  |           +----- Aculamprotula_tortuosa     
     +--+  +--------+                                 
        |  |        |  +-- Aculamprotula_tientsinensis
        |  |        +--+                              
        |  |           +-- Aculamprotula_coreana      
        +--+                                          
           |        +----- Schistodesmus_lampreyanus  
           |  +-----+                                 
           |  |     |  +-- Tchangsinaia_piscicula     
           |  |     +--+                              
           +--+        +-- Nodularia_douglasiae       
              |                                       
              |  +-------- Unio_tumidus               
              +--+                                    
                 |  +----- Unio_nanus                 
                 +--+                                 
                    |  +-- Unio_pictorum              
                    +--+                              
                       +-- Unio_delphinus             
 
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