Somewhere I belong: phylogeny and morphological evolution in a species-rich lineage of ectoparasitic flatworms infecting cichlid fishes
A. J. Cruz-Laufer, A. Pariselle, M. W. P. Jorissen, F. Muterezi Bukinga, A. Al Assadi, M. Van Steenberge, S. Koblmueller, C. Sturmbauer, K. Smeets, T. Artois, M. P. M. Vanhove
The paper uses molecular, morphological, and host data to analyze phylogeny and evolution in a lineage of flatworms infecting cichlid fishes, finding that discrete characters can mask signals but are key for species grouping.
bioRxiv · Mar 22, 2021Evolutionary Biology