Enoplea

Not to be confused with Enopla, a clade of nemertean worms.

Enoplea
Mermis nigrescens
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Nematoda
Class: Enoplea
Inglis, 1983
Subclasses

Enoplea (enopleans) is a class, which with the classes Secernentea[1] and Chromadorea make up the phylum Nematoda in current taxonomy.[2][3][4] The Enoplea are considered to be a more ancestral group than the Chromadorea, and researchers have referred to its members as the "ancestrally diverged nematodes", compared to the "more recently diverged nematodes" of Chromadorea.[5]

  1. ^ Tree of Life Web Project (ToL) (2002): Nematoda. Version of January 1, 2002. Retrieved November 2, 2008.
  2. ^ Phylum Nematoda. Archived 2013-10-12 at the Wayback Machine Nemaplex: Nematode-Plant Expert Information System. University of California, Davis. Version October 4, 2012.
  3. ^ Jühling, F.; et al. (2012). "Armless mitochondrial tRNAs in Enoplea (Nematoda)". RNA Biology. 9 (9): 1161–66. doi:10.4161/rna.21630. PMC 3579883. PMID 23018779.
  4. ^ Hyman, B. C.; et al. (2011). "Rampant gene rearrangement and haplotype hypervariation among nematode mitochondrial genomes". Genetica. 139 (5): 611–15. doi:10.1007/s10709-010-9531-3. PMC 3089818. PMID 21136141.
  5. ^ Schulze, J.; Schierenberg, E. (2009). "Embryogenesis of Romanomermis culicivorax: An alternative way to construct a nematode". Developmental Biology. 334 (1): 10–21. doi:10.1016/j.ydbio.2009.06.009. PMID 19523940.