A phylogenomic framework and timescale for comparative studies of tunicates

Phylotranscriptomic consolidation of the jawed vertebrate timetree

(2017) Iker Irisarri et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Zoology: War of the Worms

(2016) Maximilian J. Telford et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Tunicates

(2016) Linda Z. Holland   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Rapid Evolutionary Rates and Unique Genomic Signatures Discovered in the First Reference Genome for the Southern Ocean Salp,Salpa thompsoni(Urochordata, Thaliacea)

(2016) Nathaniel K. Jue et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

Back to solitude: Solving the phylogenetic position of the Diazonidae using molecular and developmental characters

(2016) Noa Shenkar et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

New deep-sea species of Xenoturbella and the position of Xenacoelomorpha

(2016) Greg W. Rouse et al.   NATURE

Xenacoelomorpha is the sister group to Nephrozoa

(2016) Johanna Taylor Cannon et al.   NATURE

The meaning of categorical ranks in evolutionary biology

(2016) Gonzalo Giribet et al.   ORGANISMS DIVERSITY & EVOLUTION

Uncertainty in the Timing of Origin of Animals and the Limits of Precision in Molecular Timescales

(2015) Mario dos Reis et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Morphological evidence that the molecularly determinedCiona intestinalistype A and type B are different species:Ciona robustaandCiona intestinalis

(2015) Riccardo Brunetti et al.   JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGICAL SYSTEMATICS AND EVOLUTIONARY RESEARCH

ANISEED 2015: a digital framework for the comparative developmental biology of ascidians

(2015) Matija Brozovic et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Acoelomorpha: earliest branching bilaterians or deuterostomes?

(2015) Iñaki Ruiz-Trillo et al.   ORGANISMS DIVERSITY & EVOLUTION

Chordate phylogeny and the meaning of categorial ranks in modern evolutionary biology

(2015) M. Lambertz et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Thaliaceans, The Neglected Pelagic Relatives of Ascidians: A Developmental and Evolutionary Enigma

(2015) Jacques Piette et al.   QUARTERLY REVIEW OF BIOLOGY

Evolutionary Genomics of Fast Evolving Tunicates

(2014) Luisa Berná et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

Genomics, evolution and development of amphioxus and tunicates: The Goldilocks principle

(2014) Linda Z. Holland   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL ZOOLOGY PART B-MOLECULAR AND DEVELOPMENTAL EVOLUTION

Comparative population genomics in animals uncovers the determinants of genetic diversity

(2014) J. Romiguier et al.   NATURE

BoxPlotR: a web tool for generation of box plots

(2014) Michaela Spitzer et al.   NATURE METHODS

Chordate evolution and the three-phylum system

(2014) N. Satoh et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Divergent mechanisms regulate conserved cardiopharyngeal development and gene expression in distantly related ascidians

(2014) Alberto Stolfi et al.   eLife

Deep Sequencing of Mixed Total DNA without Barcodes Allows Efficient Assembly of Highly Plastic Ascidian Mitochondrial Genomes

(2013) Nimrod D. Rubinstein et al.   Genome Biology 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

The genome sequence of the colonial chordate, Botryllus schlosseri

(2013) Ayelet Voskoboynik et al.   eLife

Phylogenomic analyses support the position of turtles as the sister group of birds and crocodiles (Archosauria)

(2012) Ylenia Chiari et al.   BMC BIOLOGY

The Population Genomics of a Fast Evolver: High Levels of Diversity, Functional Constraint, and Molecular Adaptation in the Tunicate Ciona intestinalis

(2012) Georgia Tsagkogeorga et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

Bayesian Phylogenetics with BEAUti and the BEAST 1.7

(2012) Alexei J. Drummond et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

A new metazoan from the Vendian of the White Sea, Russia, with possible affinities to the ascidians

(2012) M. A. Fedonkin et al.   PALEONTOLOGICAL JOURNAL

On the temporal inconsistencies of Linnean taxonomic ranks

(2011) JOHN C. AVISE et al.   BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Difficult phylogenetic questions: more data, maybe; better methods, certainly

(2011) Hervé Philippe et al.   BMC BIOLOGY

Evolutionary crossroads in developmental biology: the tunicates

(2011) P. Lemaire   DEVELOPMENT

Dating the arthropod tree based on large-scale transcriptome data

(2011) Peter Rehm et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Acoelomorph flatworms are deuterostomes related to Xenoturbella

(2011) Hervé Philippe et al.   NATURE

Divergence Time Estimation Using Fossils as Terminal Taxa and the Origins of Lissamphibia

(2011) R. Alexander Pyron   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Evolution of embryonic development in nematodes

(2011) Jens Schulze et al.   EvoDevo

Resolving Difficult Phylogenetic Questions: Why More Sequences Are Not Enough

(2011) Hervé Philippe et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Accelerated Evolutionary Rate of Housekeeping Genes in Tunicates

(2010) Georgia Tsagkogeorga et al.   JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR EVOLUTION

A molecular phylogeny of the Thaliacea

(2010) A. F. Govindarajan et al.   JOURNAL OF PLANKTON RESEARCH

Plasticity of Animal Genome Architecture Unmasked by Rapid Evolution of a Pelagic Tunicate

(2010) F. Denoeud et al.   SCIENCE

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

(2009) Nicolas Lartillot et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

An updated 18S rRNA phylogeny of tunicates based on mixture and secondary structure models

(2009) Georgia Tsagkogeorga et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

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

ABySS: A parallel assembler for short read sequence data

(2009) J. T. Simpson et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

Hypervariability of Ascidian Mitochondrial Gene Order: Exposing the Myth of Deuterostome Organelle Genome Stability

(2009) Carmela Gissi et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Ascidians and the Plasticity of the Chordate Developmental Program

(2008) Patrick Lemaire et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Additional molecular support for the new chordate phylogeny

(2008) Frédéric Delsuc et al.   GENESIS

The amphioxus genome and the evolution of the chordate karyotype

(2008) Nicholas H. Putnam et al.   NATURE