Novel Scenarios of Early Animal Evolution--Is It Time to Rewrite Textbooks?

Cnidarian phylogenetic relationships as revealed by mitogenomics

(2013) Ehsan Kayal et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

The Identification of MicroRNAs in Calcisponges: Independent Evolution of MicroRNAs in Basal Metazoans

(2013) Jeffrey M. Robinson et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL ZOOLOGY PART B-MOLECULAR AND DEVELOPMENTAL EVOLUTION

Deep metazoan phylogeny: When different genes tell different stories

(2013) Tetyana Nosenko et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Nervous System May Have Evolved Twice

(2013) E. Pennisi   SCIENCE

Independent specialisation of myosin II paralogues in muscle vs. non-muscle functions during early animal evolution: a ctenophore perspective

(2012) Cyrielle Dayraud et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

MicroRNAs and essential components of the microRNA processing machinery are not encoded in the genome of the ctenophore Mnemiopsis leidyi

(2012) Evan K Maxwell et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Near intron pairs and the metazoan tree

(2012) Jörg Lehmann et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Chasing the urmetazoon: Striking a blow for quality data?

(2012) Hans-Jürgen Osigus et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Independent evolution of striated muscles in cnidarians and bilaterians

(2012) Patrick R. H. Steinmetz et al.   NATURE

A gathering of minds: expanding understanding of the origins of biological diversity and the evolution of developmental mechanisms

(2012) Christine A Byrum   EvoDevo

No longer Demospongiae: Homoscleromorpha formal nomination as a fourth class of Porifera

(2011) Eve Gazave et al.   HYDROBIOLOGIA

Epithelia, an Evolutionary Novelty of Metazoans

(2011) Sally P. Leys et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL ZOOLOGY PART B-MOLECULAR AND DEVELOPMENTAL EVOLUTION

Ultrastructural analyses support different morphological lineages in the phylum placozoa Grell, 1971

(2011) Loretta Guidi et al.   JOURNAL OF MORPHOLOGY

Extreme mitochondrial evolution in the ctenophoreMnemiopsis leidyi: Insight from mtDNA and the nuclear genome

(2011) Walker Pett et al.   Mitochondrial DNA

Rapid evolution of the compact and unusual mitochondrial genome in the ctenophore, Pleurobrachia bachei

(2011) Andrea B. Kohn et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Estimation of divergence times in cnidarian evolution based on mitochondrial protein-coding genes and the fossil record

(2011) Eunji Park et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Higher-level metazoan relationships: recent progress and remaining questions

(2011) Gregory D. Edgecombe et al.   ORGANISMS DIVERSITY & EVOLUTION

The Cambrian Conundrum: Early Divergence and Later Ecological Success in the Early History of Animals

(2011) D. H. Erwin et al.   SCIENCE

Resolving Difficult Phylogenetic Questions: Why More Sequences Are Not Enough

(2011) Hervé Philippe et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Six major steps in animal evolution: are we derived sponge larvae?

(2010) Claus Nielsen   EVOLUTION & DEVELOPMENT

Improved Phylogenomic Taxon Sampling Noticeably Affects Nonbilaterian Relationships

(2010) K. S. Pick et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

The Amphimedon queenslandica genome and the evolution of animal complexity

(2010) Mansi Srivastava et al.   NATURE

The homeodomain complement of the ctenophore Mnemiopsis leidyi suggests that Ctenophora and Porifera diverged prior to the ParaHoxozoa

(2010) Joseph F Ryan et al.   EvoDevo

An unexpectedly sophisticated, V-shaped spermatozoon in Demospongiae (Porifera): reproductive and evolutionary implications

(2009) ANA RIESGO et al.   BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Phylogenomics Revives Traditional Views on Deep Animal Relationships

(2009) Hervé Philippe et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Large-Scale Parsimony Analysis of Metazoan Indels in Protein-Coding Genes

(2009) F. Belinky et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Phylogenetic-Signal Dissection of Nuclear Housekeeping Genes Supports the Paraphyly of Sponges and the Monophyly of Eumetazoa

(2009) E. A. Sperling et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Assessing the root of bilaterian animals with scalable phylogenomic methods

(2009) A. Hejnol et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Group I-intron trans-splicing and mRNA editing in the mitochondria of placozoan animals

(2009) Gertraud Burger et al.   TRENDS IN GENETICS

A New Look at Some Old Animals

(2009) Neil W Blackstone   PLOS BIOLOGY

Concatenated Analysis Sheds Light on Early Metazoan Evolution and Fuels a Modern “Urmetazoon” Hypothesis

(2009) Bernd Schierwater et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

An even “newer” animal phylogeny

(2008) Rob DeSalle et al.   BIOESSAYS

The Trichoplax genome and the nature of placozoans

(2008) Mansi Srivastava et al.   NATURE

The genome of the choanoflagellate Monosiga brevicollis and the origin of metazoans

(2008) Nicole King et al.   NATURE

Broad phylogenomic sampling improves resolution of the animal tree of life

(2008) Casey W. Dunn et al.   NATURE

Molecular phylogeny of choanoflagellates, the sister group to Metazoa

(2008) M. Carr et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Phylogeny and Evolution of Glass Sponges (Porifera, Hexactinellida)

(2008) Martin Dohrmann et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY