Macroevolution of Animal Body Plans: Is There Science after the Tree?

Aplacophoran Mollusks Evolved from Ancestors with Polyplacophoran-like Features

(2013) Maik Scherholz et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Rates of Phenotypic and Genomic Evolution during the Cambrian Explosion

(2013) Michael S.Y. Lee et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Clades reach highest morphological disparity early in their evolution

(2013) Martin Hughes et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Deep Homology of Arthropod Central Complex and Vertebrate Basal Ganglia

(2013) N. J. Strausfeld et al.   SCIENCE

Cambrian bivalved arthropod reveals origin of arthrodization

(2012) D. A. Legg et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Serine Codon-Usage Bias in Deep Phylogenomics: Pancrustacean Relationships as a Case Study

(2012) Omar Rota-Stabelli et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Animal Evolution: A Soap Opera of Unremarkable Worms

(2011) Christopher J. Lowe et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Flatfishes, Turtles, and Bolyerine Snakes: Evolution by Small Steps or Large, or Both?

(2011) T. H. Frazzetta   Evolutionary Biology

Use of Morphology in Criticizing Molecular Trees

(2011) Ronald A. Jenner   JOURNAL OF CRUSTACEAN BIOLOGY

Acoelomorph flatworms are deuterostomes related to Xenoturbella

(2011) Hervé Philippe et al.   NATURE

Higher-level metazoan relationships: recent progress and remaining questions

(2011) Gregory D. Edgecombe et al.   ORGANISMS DIVERSITY & EVOLUTION

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

(2011) D. H. Erwin et al.   SCIENCE

Deep homology: A view from systematics

(2010) Robert W. Scotland   BIOESSAYS

The series, the network, and the tree: changing metaphors of order in nature

(2010) Olivier Rieppel   BIOLOGY & PHILOSOPHY

Profiling by Image Registration Reveals Common Origin of Annelid Mushroom Bodies and Vertebrate Pallium

(2010) Raju Tomer et al.   CELL

Morphology, Development, and Sequence

(2010) Frank D. Ferrari   JOURNAL OF CRUSTACEAN BIOLOGY

Improved Phylogenomic Taxon Sampling Noticeably Affects Nonbilaterian Relationships

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

Arthropod relationships revealed by phylogenomic analysis of nuclear protein-coding sequences

(2010) Jerome C. Regier et al.   NATURE

microRNAs reveal the interrelationships of hagfish, lampreys, and gnathostomes and the nature of the ancestral vertebrate

(2010) A. M. Heimberg et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Animal Evolution: Once upon a Time

(2009) Maximilian J. Telford   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Phylogenetic-Signal Dissection of Nuclear Housekeeping Genes Supports the Paraphyly of Sponges and the Monophyly of Eumetazoa

(2009) E. A. Sperling et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Deep homology and the origins of evolutionary novelty

(2009) Neil Shubin et al.   NATURE

Evolution: like any other science it is predictable

(2009) S. Conway Morris   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Saltational evolution: hopeful monsters are here to stay

(2009) Günter Theißen   THEORY IN BIOSCIENCES

Broad phylogenomic sampling improves resolution of the animal tree of life

(2008) Casey W. Dunn et al.   NATURE