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ArticleBiology letters2025

Phylogenetic history of the acquisition of molluscan hosts in acotylean flatworms.

Osamu Kagawa, Hajime Itoh, Nobuyoshi Nakajima, Hiroaki Fukumori

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Article in Biology letters, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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4 authors.

Osamu KagawaShimoda Marine Research Center, Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Shimoda, Shizuoka 415-0025, Japan.ORCID 0000-0003-0040-5748
Hajime ItohAtmosphere and Ocean Research Institute, The University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Chiba 277-8564, Japan.
Nobuyoshi NakajimaBiodiversity Division, National Institute for Environmetal Studies, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8506, Japan.
Hiroaki FukumoriResearch Center for Marine Biology, Graduate School of Life Sciences, Tohoku University, Asamushi, Aomori 089-3501, Japan.ORCID 0000-0001-8148-1886

Funding

Environmental Genomics Research Promotion ProgramJapan Society for the Promotion of Science
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

How symbionts acquired hosts and diversified phylogenetically during their evolutionary history is a focus of attention in many symbiotic taxa. Marine polyclad flatworms are usually free-living, but some are symbiotic, using animals as hosts. However, the history of their acquisition of symbiotic systems is not well understood. Therefore, we focused on mollusc symbiotic flatworms in the suborder Acotylea and investigated the host specificity and phylogenetic history of the acquisition of symbiosis. Field surveys revealed that symbiotic flatworms utilized certain molluscs as hosts. In particular,

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MolluscaPhylogenyPlatyhelminthsSymbiosisAnimalsBiological EvolutionHost Specificityflatwormhost shift speciationhost specificityphylogenysymbiosis

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PMID40199344
PMCPMC11978461

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