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Genetics Lecture and Lab
Lesser-known Taxa
Symposium at SICB 2001
Ninth International Tardigrade Symposium 2003
Marine
Heterotardigrade Biosystematics
Coastal Sinkhole Project
Department
of Cell Biology, Microbiology and Molecular Biology Sequencing Center
Invertebrate Evolutionary Relationships
Department of Biology, University of South Florida,
email to: garey@cas.usf.edu
This page is dedicated to molecular and
morphological studies
of invertebrate phylogeny. We specialize in the "Lesser-Known"
taxa,
particularly those once collectively known as "aschelminthes".
These
lesser-known invertebrates are the key to understanding animal
evolution. Our most current hypothesis of animal evolution has
the initial branching of bilateral animals between protostomes and
deuterostomes. The protostomes are divided into two major
groups: Ecdysozoa (molting animals) consists of Cycloneuralia (sensu
Ehlers) + Panarthropoda. Lophotrochozoa (Spiralia) consists of
all the non-molting protostomes. Within Lophotrochozoa is a group
Platyzoa that consists of Platyhelminthes, Gastrotricha,
Rotifera, Gnathostomulida and the new group Micrognathozoa. See
below for publications from the Garey lab concerning animal phylogeny.
Recent Publications from the
Garey Lab:
Garey, J.R. (2002) Ecdysozoa: the evidence for a close
relationship between arthropods and nematodes. Proceedings of the
XVIII International Zoological Conference. In
Press
Garey, J.R. (2002). The lesser-known Protostomes: Introduction and a
tribute to Robert Higgins. Integ. and Comp. Biol.
42:611-618.
Bleidorn, C., Schmidt-Rhaesa, A. and Garey, J.R. (2002).
Systematic relationships of Nematomorpha based on molecular and
morphological data. 121:357-364.
Garey,
J.R. (2001). Ecdysozoa: the relationship between Cycloneuralia and
Panarthropoda , Zool. Anz., 240: 321-330..
Gray, K and Garey, J.R. (2001). The evolution of
bacterial LuxI and LuxR quorum sensing regulators. Microbiology,
147:2379-2387.
Cameron,
C.B., Garey, J.R. and Swalla, B.J. (2000). Evolution of the Chordate
Body Plan: New insights from phylogenetic analyses of deuterostome
phyla. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 95:4469-4474.
Swalla
BJ, Cameron CB, Corley LS and Garey JR (2000) Urochordates are
Monophyletic within the Deuterostomes. Systematic Biology, 49:
122-134 .
Garey,
J.R., Nelson, D.R., Mackey, L.Y., and Li, J. (1999).
Tardigrade Phylogeny: Congruency of Morphological and Molecular
Evidence. Zool. Anz. 238:205-210.
Garey,
J.R. and Schmidt-Rhaesa, A. (1998). The essential role of "minor"
phyla in molecular studies of animal evolution. Amer. Zool. 38:
907-917.
Schmidt-Rhaesa,
A., Ehlers, U. Bartolomaeus, T, Lemburg, C. and Garey, J.R. (1998) The
phylogenetic position of the Arthropoda. J. Morphology
238:263-285.
Blaxter ML, De
Ley P, Garey JR, Liu LX, Scheldeman P, Vierstraete A, Vanfleteren JR,
Mackey LY, Dorris M, Frisse LM, Vida JT, Thomas WK. (1998) A molecular
evolutionary framework for the phylum Nematoda. Nature 392, 71-74.
Mushegian,
A.R., Garey,
J.R., Martin, J. and Liu, L. (1998). Large-scale taxonomic
profiling
of eukaryotic model organisms: a comparison of orthologous
proteins
encoded by the human, fly, nematode, and yeast genomes. Genome
Research
8, 590-598.
Garey,
J.R., Schmidt-Rhaesa,
A., Near, T.J. & Nadler, S.A. (1998) The evolutionary relationships
of
rotifers and acanthocephalans. Hydrobiologia, 387/388: 83-91.
Near, T.J., Garey, J.R., Nadler, S.A. (1998) Phylogenetic
relationships of the acanthocephala inferred from 18S ribosomal DNA
sequences. Molec. Phyl. Evol. 10:287-298.
Upcoming publications from
the Garey Lab:
Massey, S.E., Garey, J.R. and Tuite, M.F. (2003). The nuclear CUG codon
reassignment of Candida albicans has occurred without a change in
aminoacylation identity of the associated ser-tRNA (CAG).
Accepted pending revision in Genome Research..
Harwood, V.J., Delahoya, N.C., Kramer, M.F., Whitlock, J.E., Garey,
J.R. and Lim, D.M. (2003). Identification of Enterococcus species
from clinical, fecal, and environmental sources by molecular and
phenotypic techniques. Submitted.
Hamilton, H and Garey, J.R. (2003). Phylogenetic profiling of
meiofaunal community structure. In preparation.
Mallat, J., Garey, J.R. and Schultz, J.W. (2003). Ecdysozoan
Phuylogeny: first use of nearly complete 28S and 18S rRNA gene
sequences to classify
the arthropods and their kin. In preparation.
Robeson, M. And Garey, J.R. The mitochondrial genome of the
rotifer Brachionus plicatilis. In preparation.
Garey, J.R.. Deep Bilaterian Phylogeny: The Evolution of Adaptation to
Extreme Environments. In preparation.