Rerooting the rDNA gene tree reveals phoronids to be ‘brachiopods without shells’; dangers of wide taxon samples in metazoan phylogenetics (Phoronida; Brachiopoda)

Rooting Gene Trees without Outgroups: EP Rooting

(2012) Janet S. Sinsheimer et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

Random roots and lineage sorting

(2012) Jeffrey A. Rosenfeld et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Critical Truths About Power Laws

(2012) M. P. H. Stumpf et al.   SCIENCE

Disentangling ribbon worm relationships: multi-locus analysis supports traditional classification of the phylum Nemertea

(2011) Sónia C. S. Andrade et al.   CLADISTICS

Molecular paleobiological insights into the origin of the Brachiopoda

(2011) Erik A. Sperling et al.   EVOLUTION & DEVELOPMENT

First record of a bivalved larval shell in Early Cambrian tommotiids and its phylogenetic significance

(2011) LARS E. HOLMER et al.   PALAEONTOLOGY

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

(2011) D. H. Erwin et al.   SCIENCE

Missing Data in Phylogenetic Analysis: Reconciling Results from Simulations and Empirical Data

(2011) John J. Wiens et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Branch support via resampling: an empirical study

(2010) John V. Freudenstein et al.   CLADISTICS

Compositional Heterogeneity and Phylogenomic Inference of Metazoan Relationships

(2010) M. P. Nesnidal et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Phylogenetic relationships within the lophophorate lineages (Ectoprocta, Brachiopoda and Phoronida)

(2010) Bernhard Hausdorf et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Early Cambrian “Soft-Shelled” Brachiopods as Possible Stem-Group Phoronids

(2009) Uwe Balthasar et al.   ACTA PALAEONTOLOGICA POLONICA

Nearly complete rRNA genes assembled from across the metazoan animals: Effects of more taxa, a structure-based alignment, and paired-sites evolutionary models on phylogeny reconstruction

(2009) Jon Mallatt et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Lophotrochozoa internal phylogeny: new insights from an up-to-date analysis of nuclear ribosomal genes

(2009) J. Paps et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Phoronid phylogenetics (Brachiopoda; Phoronata): evidence from morphological cladistics, small and large subunit rDNA sequences, and mitochondrialcox1

(2009) SCOTT SANTAGATA et al.   ZOOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

The scleritome of Eccentrotheca from the Lower Cambrian of South Australia: Lophophorate affinities and implications for tommotiid phylogeny

(2008) Christian B. Skovsted et al.   GEOLOGY

Broad phylogenomic sampling improves resolution of the animal tree of life

(2008) Casey W. Dunn et al.   NATURE