| molecular phylogeny of the acanthocephala (class palaeacanthocephala) with a paraphyletic assemblage of the orders polymorphida and echinorhynchida. | acanthocephalans are attractive candidates as model organisms for studying the ecology and co-evolutionary history of parasitic life cycles in the marine ecosystem. adding to earlier molecular analyses of this taxon, a total of 36 acanthocephalans belonging to the classes archiacanthocephala (3 species), eoacanthocephala (3 species), palaeacanthocephala (29 species), polyacanthocephala (1 species) and rotifera as outgroup (3 species) were analyzed by using bayesian inference and maximum likeliho ... | 2011 | 22163005 |