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

Genome-wide interrogation advances resolution of recalcitrant groups in the tree of life

(2017) Dahiana Arcila et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

A sisterly dispute

(2016) Maximilian J. Telford et al.   NATURE

Xenacoelomorpha is the sister group to Nephrozoa

(2016) Johanna Taylor Cannon et al.   NATURE

Miscues misplace sponges

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Extracting phylogenetic signal and accounting for bias in whole-genome data sets supports the Ctenophora as sister to remaining Metazoa

(2015) Marek L. Borowiec et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Employing Phylogenomics to Resolve the Relationships among Cnidarians, Ctenophores, Sponges, Placozoans, and Bilaterians

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Convergent evolution of neural systems in ctenophores

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

Independent origins of neurons and synapses: insights from ctenophores

(2015) Leonid L. Moroz et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

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

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

The hidden biology of sponges and ctenophores

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

Exploring the potential of small RNA subunit and ITS sequences for resolving phylogenetic relationships within the phylum Ctenophora

(2015) Paul Simion et al.   ZOOLOGY

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

(2014) Alexandros Stamatakis   BIOINFORMATICS

Selecting optimal partitioning schemes for phylogenomic datasets

(2014) Robert Lanfear et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

TreSpEx–-Detection of Misleading Signal in Phylogenetic Reconstructions Based on Tree Information

(2014) Torsten H. Struck   Evolutionary Bioinformatics

The ctenophore genome and the evolutionary origins of neural systems

(2014) Leonid L. Moroz et al.   NATURE

BEAST 2: A Software Platform for Bayesian Evolutionary Analysis

(2014) Remco Bouckaert et al.   PLoS Computational Biology

ClockstaR: choosing the number of relaxed-clock models in molecular phylogenetic analysis

(2013) Sebastián Duchêne et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

PhyloTreePruner: A Phylogenetic Tree-Based Approach for selection of Orthologous sequences for phylogenomics

(2013) Kevin M. Kocot et al.   Evolutionary Bioinformatics

MAFFT Multiple Sequence Alignment Software Version 7: Improvements in Performance and Usability

(2013) K. Katoh et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Deep metazoan phylogeny: When different genes tell different stories

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

BaCoCa – A heuristic software tool for the parallel assessment of sequence biases in hundreds of gene and taxon partitions

(2013) Patrick Kück et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

De novo transcript sequence reconstruction from RNA-seq using the Trinity platform for reference generation and analysis

(2013) Brian J Haas et al.   Nature Protocols

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

(2013) Nicolas Lartillot et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Independent evolution of striated muscles in cnidarians and bilaterians

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

The impact of taxon sampling on phylogenetic inference: a review of two decades of controversy

(2011) A. R. Nabhan et al.   BRIEFINGS IN BIOINFORMATICS

Eoandromeda and the origin of Ctenophora

(2011) Feng Tang et al.   EVOLUTION & DEVELOPMENT

HMMER web server: interactive sequence similarity searching

(2011) R. D. Finn et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

phytools: an R package for phylogenetic comparative biology (and other things)

(2011) Liam J. Revell   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Bioluminescence in the Ocean: Origins of Biological, Chemical, and Ecological Diversity

(2010) E. A. Widder   SCIENCE

Changes in biodiversity of phytoplankton, zooplankton, fishes and macrobenthos in the Southern Caspian Sea after the invasion of the ctenophore Mnemiopsis Leidyi

(2009) Aboulghasem Roohi et al.   BIOLOGICAL INVASIONS

HaMStR: Profile hidden markov model based search for orthologs in ESTs

(2009) Ingo Ebersberger et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Assessing the root of bilaterian animals with scalable phylogenomic methods

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

Broad phylogenomic sampling improves resolution of the animal tree of life

(2008) Casey W. Dunn et al.   NATURE