Reconsidering Animal Phylogeny: Tree-Thinking

Susan Offner

doi:10.1525/abt.2016.78.5.376

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Susan Offner¹

¹The late Susan Offner was a biology teacher at Lexington High School in Lexington, Massachusetts. A lifelong member of NABT, she published dozens of articles in this journal. Susan died peacefully at home on February 13, 2016, surrounded by family.

Abstract

New phylogenomic methods have made it possible to obtain a robust phylogenetic tree of the animal kingdom. The resulting tree confirms much of what was already known but also contains some nice surprises.

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Susan Offner "Reconsidering Animal Phylogeny: Tree-Thinking," The American Biology Teacher 78(5), 376-379, (1 May 2016). https://doi.org/10.1525/abt.2016.78.5.376

Published: 1 May 2016