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THE ORIGIN OF PROTISTAN SYMBIONTS IN TERMITES AND COCKROACHES: A PHYLOGENETIC PERSPECTIVE
Author(s) -
Grandcolas Philippe,
Deleporte Pierre
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
cladistics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.323
H-Index - 92
eISSN - 1096-0031
pISSN - 0748-3007
DOI - 10.1111/j.1096-0031.1996.tb00195.x
Subject(s) - phylogenetic tree , biology , protist , cockroach , evolutionary biology , ancestor , phylogenetics , horizontal gene transfer , ecology , zoology , genetics , gene , geography , archaeology
— The controversy over whether protist symbionts of Cryptocercus and termites were inherited from a common ancestor or transferred secondarily has been long standing. We present here the first phylogenetic test of these hypotheses and show that the transfer hypothesis is better supported.