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The final three phyla in this chapter are the most controversial taxa placed within Protostomia. Evidence that Ectoprocta, Brachiopoda, and Phoronida belong within the lophotrochozoan subgroup of protostomes comes from sequence analysis of the genes encoding small-subunit ribosomal RNA. Some developmental data are consistent with the molecular data: in phoronids, …

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