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Demise of Marimermithida refines primary routes of transition to parasitism in roundworms
A. V. Tchesunov, O. V. Nikolaeva, L. Y. Rusin…·V. V. Aleoshin
The paper re-evaluates the evolutionary routes to parasitism in nematodes by dismissing Marimermithida and showing independent emergence of marine parasitism in free-living lineages.
DOI 10.1101/2022.02.15.480519