Genomic data do not support comb jellies as the sister group to all other animals

Phylogenomic Insights into Animal Evolution

(2015) Maximilian J. Telford et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

The Rise and Fall of TRP-N, an Ancient Family of Mechanogated Ion Channels, in Metazoa

(2015) Andreas Schüler et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

DNA Methylation in Basal Metazoans: Insights from Ctenophores

(2015) Emily C. Dabe et al.   INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY

Evolution of the first nervous systems - what can we surmise?

(2015) D. Bucher et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Elements of a 'nervous system' in sponges

(2015) S. P. Leys   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Convergent evolution of neural systems in ctenophores

(2015) L. L. Moroz   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Rooting the tree of life: the phylogenetic jury is still out

(2015) Richard Gouy et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Probabilistic models of eukaryotic evolution: time for integration

(2015) Nicolas Lartillot   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Convergence of ion channel genome content in early animal evolution

(2015) Benjamin J. Liebeskind et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Error, signal, and the placement of Ctenophora sister to all other animals

(2015) Nathan V. Whelan et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Genomic insights into the evolutionary origin of Myxozoa within Cnidaria

(2015) E. Sally Chang et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Bacterial proteins pinpoint a single eukaryotic root

(2015) Romain Derelle et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The hidden biology of sponges and ctenophores

(2015) Casey W. Dunn et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Higher-level phylogeny of paraneopteran insects inferred from mitochondrial genome sequences

(2015) Hu Li et al.   Scientific Reports

The phylogenetic position of ctenophores and the origin(s) of nervous systems

(2015) Gáspár Jákely et al.   EvoDevo

What is Xenoturbella?

(2015) Hiroaki Nakano   Zoological Letters

Animal Phylogeny and Its Evolutionary Implications

(2014) Casey W. Dunn et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

RAxML version 8: a tool for phylogenetic analysis and post-analysis of large phylogenies

(2014) Alexandros Stamatakis   BIOINFORMATICS

Evolution: Ctenophore Genomes and the Origin of Neurons

(2014) Heather Marlow et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

The Comb Jelly Opsins and the Origins of Animal Phototransduction

(2014) Roberto Feuda et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

Dynamic evolution of mitochondrial ribosomal proteins in Holozoa

(2014) Bettina M. Scheel et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

The ctenophore genome and the evolutionary origins of neural systems

(2014) Leonid L. Moroz et al.   NATURE

Expression of multiple Sox genes through embryonic development in the ctenophore Mnemiopsis leidyi is spatially restricted to zones of cell proliferation

(2014) Christine E Schnitzler et al.   EvoDevo

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

(2013) M. Dohrmann et al.   INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY

Deep metazoan phylogeny: When different genes tell different stories

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

The Genome of the Ctenophore Mnemiopsis leidyi and Its Implications for Cell Type Evolution

(2013) J. F. Ryan et al.   SCIENCE

PhyloBayes MPI: Phylogenetic Reconstruction with Infinite Mixtures of Profiles in a Parallel Environment

(2013) Nicolas Lartillot et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Molecular phylogenetics: principles and practice

(2012) Ziheng Yang et al.   NATURE REVIEWS GENETICS

The Evolutionary Root of Flowering Plants

(2012) Vadim V. Goremykin et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

MrBayes 3.2: Efficient Bayesian Phylogenetic Inference and Model Choice Across a Large Model Space

(2012) Fredrik Ronquist et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Acoelomorph flatworms are deuterostomes related to Xenoturbella

(2011) Hervé Philippe et al.   NATURE

Phylogenomic analyses unravel annelid evolution

(2011) Torsten H. Struck et al.   NATURE

MicroRNAs and phylogenomics resolve the relationships of Tardigrada and suggest that velvet worms are the sister group of Arthropoda

(2011) L. I. Campbell et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Resolving Difficult Phylogenetic Questions: Why More Sequences Are Not Enough

(2011) Hervé Philippe et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Deep Genomic-Scale Analyses of the Metazoa Reject Coelomata: Evidence from Single- and Multigene Families Analyzed Under a Supertree and Supermatrix Paradigm

(2010) Thérèse A. Holton et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

Improved Phylogenomic Taxon Sampling Noticeably Affects Nonbilaterian Relationships

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

Molecular phylogeny of acariform mites (Acari, Arachnida): Strong conflict between phylogenetic signal and long-branch attraction artifacts

(2010) Miroslawa Dabert et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

PhyloBayes 3: a Bayesian software package for phylogenetic reconstruction and molecular dating

(2009) Nicolas Lartillot et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Tunicate mitogenomics and phylogenetics: peculiarities of the Herdmania momus mitochondrial genome and support for the new chordate phylogeny

(2009) Tiratha Singh et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Phylogenomics Revives Traditional Views on Deep Animal Relationships

(2009) Hervé Philippe et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Assessing the root of bilaterian animals with scalable phylogenomic methods

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

Phylogenetic Inference Using Whole Genomes

(2008) Bruce Rannala et al.   Annual Review of Genomics and Human Genetics

Additional molecular support for the new chordate phylogeny

(2008) Frédéric Delsuc et al.   GENESIS

A Site- and Time-Heterogeneous Model of Amino Acid Replacement

(2008) Samuel Blanquart et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

An Improved General Amino Acid Replacement Matrix

(2008) S. Q. Le et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Broad phylogenomic sampling improves resolution of the animal tree of life

(2008) Casey W. Dunn et al.   NATURE