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

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Publication Lemer et al. (2019): cladograms
     publication summary | cladograms

Complete Citation

Lemer, S., R. Bieler & G. Giribet. 2019. Resolving the relationships of clams and cockles: dense transcriptome sampling drastically improves the bivalve tree of life. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 286:20182684: 1-9. Available electronically.

Cladogram Figures

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Cladogram Figure 1
        +-- Neotrigonia_margaritacea   
  +-----+                              
  |     +-- Neotrigonia_lamarckii      
  |                                    
--+     +-- Etheria_elliptica          
  |  +--+                              
  |  |  +-- Aspatharia_pfeifferiana    
  +--+                                 
     |  +-- Margaritifera_margaritifera
     +--+                              
        +-- Lampsilis_cardium          
 
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