First multigene phylogeny of Cumacea (crustacea: Peracarida)

• Published in: Zoologica Scripta
• Main Authors: Gerken, Sarah, Meland, Kenneth, Glenner, Henrik
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2022
• Subjects: Antarctic; Endeavour; Antarc*
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/11250/3061870; https://doi.org/10.1111/zsc.12542

Cumaceans are small peracarid crustaceans that can be remarkably diverse and important benthic organisms. Despite their ubiquitous presence in soft sediments, no well-resolved phylogeny currently exists, which impedes ecological and evolutionary studies of the group. We present a phylogeny based on...