Revisiting metazoan phylogeny with genomic sampling of all phyla

A New Spiralian Phylogeny Places the Enigmatic Arrow Worms among Gnathiferans

(2019) Ferdinand Marlétaz et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

The Role of Homology and Orthology in the Phylogenomic Analysis of Metazoan Gene Content

(2019) Walker Pett et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Stochastic Variational Inference for Bayesian Phylogenetics: A Case of CAT Model

(2019) Tung Dang et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Cambrian Sessile, Suspension Feeding Stem-Group Ctenophores and Evolution of the Comb Jelly Body Plan

(2019) Yang Zhao et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Bilateral Jaw Elements in Amiskwia sagittiformis Bridge the Morphological Gap between Gnathiferans and Chaetognaths

(2019) Jakob Vinther et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Mitigating Anticipated Effects of Systematic Errors Supports Sister-Group Relationship between Xenacoelomorpha and Ambulacraria

(2019) Hervé Philippe et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

A software tool ‘CroCo’ detects pervasive cross-species contamination in next generation sequencing data

(2018) Paul Simion et al.   BMC BIOLOGY

Orthonectids Are Highly Degenerate Annelid Worms

(2018) Philipp H. Schiffer et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Inferring Ancient Relationships with Genomic Data: A Commentary on Current Practices

(2018) Christopher E Laumer   INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY

The genome of Schmidtea mediterranea and the evolution of core cellular mechanisms

(2018) Markus Alexander Grohme et al.   NATURE

Support for a clade of Placozoa and Cnidaria in genes with minimal compositional bias

(2018) Christopher E Laumer et al.   eLife

Canu: scalable and accurate long-read assembly via adaptivek-mer weighting and repeat separation

(2017) Sergey Koren et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

Current Understanding of Ecdysozoa and its Internal Phylogenetic Relationships

(2017) Gonzalo Giribet et al.   INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY

Rotiferan Hox genes give new insights into the evolution of metazoan bodyplans

(2017) Andreas C. Fröbius et al.   Nature Communications

Orthrozanclus elongata n. sp. and the significance of sclerite-covered taxa for early trochozoan evolution

(2017) Fangchen Zhao et al.   Scientific Reports

Comparative genomics of the tardigrades Hypsibius dujardini and Ramazzottius varieornatus

(2017) Yuki Yoshida et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

The phylogenetic position of dicyemid mesozoans offers insights into spiralian evolution

(2017) Tsai-Ming Lu et al.   Zoological Letters

Ctenophore relationships and their placement as the sister group to all other animals

(2017) Nathan V. Whelan et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

The Evolution of Brachiopoda

(2016) Sandra J. Carlson   Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

The Genome of Intoshia linei Affirms Orthonectids as Highly Simplified Spiralians

(2016) Kirill V. Mikhailov et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

A New Orthology Assessment Method for Phylogenomic Data: Unrooted Phylogenetic Orthology

(2016) Jesús A. Ballesteros et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Xenacoelomorpha is the sister group to Nephrozoa

(2016) Johanna Taylor Cannon et al.   NATURE

Twenty years into the “new animal phylogeny”: Changes and challenges

(2016) Andreas Wanninger   ORGANISMS DIVERSITY & EVOLUTION

On 20 years of Lophotrochozoa

(2016) Kevin M. Kocot   ORGANISMS DIVERSITY & EVOLUTION

Genomics and the animal tree of life: conflicts and future prospects

(2016) Gonzalo Giribet   ZOOLOGICA SCRIPTA

Spiralian Phylogeny Informs the Evolution of Microscopic Lineages

(2015) Christopher E. Laumer et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

New animal phylogeny: future challenges for animal phylogeny in the age of phylogenomics

(2015) Gonzalo Giribet   ORGANISMS DIVERSITY & EVOLUTION

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

(2015) Davide Pisani 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

Ediacaran skeletal metazoan interpreted as a lophophorate

(2015) A. Yu. Zhuravlev et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Nuclear genomic signals of the ‘microturbellarian’ roots of platyhelminth evolutionary innovation

(2015) Christopher E Laumer et al.   eLife

Inclusive taxon sampling suggests a single, stepwise origin of ectolecithality in Platyhelminthes

(2014) Christopher E. Laumer et al.   BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Platyzoan Paraphyly Based on Phylogenomic Data Supports a Noncoelomate Ancestry of Spiralia

(2014) Torsten H. Struck et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Orthology Inference in Nonmodel Organisms Using Transcriptomes and Low-Coverage Genomes: Improving Accuracy and Matrix Occupancy for Phylogenomics

(2014) Ya Yang et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

A transcriptome approach to ecdysozoan phylogeny

(2014) Janus Borner et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

New phylogenomic data support the monophyly of Lophophorata and an Ectoproct-Phoronid clade and indicate that Polyzoa and Kryptrochozoa are caused by systematic bias

(2013) Maximilian P Nesnidal et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

A sclerite-bearing stem group entoproct from the early Cambrian and its implications

(2013) Zhifei Zhang et al.   Scientific Reports

Spiral cleavage and early embryology of a loxosomatid entoproct and the usefulness of spiralian apical cross patterns for phylogenetic inferences

(2012) Julia Merkel et al.   BMC DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

Phenetic phylogenetics of tentaculitoids – extinct, problematic calcareous tube-forming organisms

(2012) Olev Vinn et al.   GFF

Pruning Rogue Taxa Improves Phylogenetic Accuracy: An Efficient Algorithm and Webservice

(2012) Andre J. Aberer et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

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

(2012) Bernard L. Cohen   ZOOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Site-specific time heterogeneity of the substitution process and its impact on phylogenetic inference

(2011) Béatrice Roure et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Molecular paleobiological insights into the origin of the Brachiopoda

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

Acoelomorph flatworms are deuterostomes related to Xenoturbella

(2011) Hervé Philippe 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

BMGE (Block Mapping and Gathering with Entropy): a new software for selection of phylogenetic informative regions from multiple sequence alignments

(2010) Alexis Criscuolo et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

The systematics and evolution of the phylum Phoronida

(2010) Christian C. Emig   JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGICAL SYSTEMATICS AND EVOLUTIONARY RESEARCH

Compositional Heterogeneity and Phylogenomic Inference of Metazoan Relationships

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

Improved Phylogenomic Taxon Sampling Noticeably Affects Nonbilaterian Relationships

(2010) K. S. Pick 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

New data from an enigmatic phylum: evidence from molecular sequence data supports a sister-group relationship between Loricifera and Nematomorpha

(2008) M. V. Srensen et al.   JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGICAL SYSTEMATICS AND EVOLUTIONARY RESEARCH

Broad phylogenomic sampling improves resolution of the animal tree of life

(2008) Casey W. Dunn et al.   NATURE

SKELETAL MICROSTRUCTURE INDICATES CHANCELLORIIDS AND HALKIERIIDS ARE CLOSELY RELATED

(2008) SUSANNAH M. PORTER   PALAEONTOLOGY