A trophic framework for animal origins

Isolation and Synthesis of a Bacterially Produced Inhibitor of Rosette Development in Choanoflagellates

(2016) Alexandra M. Cantley et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

A sisterly dispute

(2016) Maximilian J. Telford et al.   NATURE

The Ecological Physiology of Earth's Second Oxygen Revolution

(2015) Erik A. Sperling et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

The Neoproterozoic

(2015) Nicholas J. Butterfield   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Carnivorous plants

(2015) Rainer Hedrich   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Phylogenomics Reveals Convergent Evolution of Lifestyles in Close Relatives of Animals and Fungi

(2015) Guifré Torruella et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

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

(2015) Mario dos Reis et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Elements of a 'nervous system' in sponges

(2015) S. P. Leys   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

The ctenophore lineage is older than sponges? That cannot be right! Or can it?

(2015) K. M. Halanych   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

The Proterozoic Record of Eukaryotes

(2015) Phoebe A. Cohen et al.   PALEOBIOLOGY

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

The hidden biology of sponges and ctenophores

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

Open Questions on the Origin of Eukaryotes

(2015) Purificación López-García et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Animal Phylogeny and Its Evolutionary Implications

(2014) Casey W. Dunn et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Choanoflagellate and choanocyte collar-flagellar systems and the assumption of homology

(2014) Jasmine L. Mah et al.   EVOLUTION & DEVELOPMENT

740 Ma vase-shaped microfossils from Yukon, Canada: Implications for Neoproterozoic chronology and biostratigraphy

(2014) Justin V. Strauss et al.   GEOLOGY

The ctenophore genome and the evolutionary origins of neural systems

(2014) Leonid L. Moroz et al.   NATURE

Early evolution of the Eukaryota

(2014) Nicholas J. Butterfield   PALAEONTOLOGY

Prey Capture and Phagocytosis in the Choanoflagellate Salpingoeca rosetta

(2014) Mark J. Dayel et al.   PLoS One

New evidence on the origin of carnivorous plants

(2014) Thomas J. Givnish   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Paleobiological Perspectives on Early Eukaryotic Evolution

(2014) A. H. Knoll   Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology

Bacterial Influences on Animal Origins

(2014) R. A. Alegado et al.   Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology

On the Age of Eukaryotes: Evaluating Evidence from Fossils and Molecular Clocks

(2014) L. Eme et al.   Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology

The Genomic and Cellular Foundations of Animal Origins

(2013) Daniel J. Richter et al.   Annual Review of Genetics

Uptake of dissolved free amino acids by four cold-water coral species from the Mediterranean Sea

(2013) Andrea Gori et al.   DEEP-SEA RESEARCH PART II-TOPICAL STUDIES IN OCEANOGRAPHY

Novel Scenarios of Early Animal Evolution--Is It Time to Rewrite Textbooks?

(2013) M. Dohrmann et al.   INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY

Deep metazoan phylogeny: When different genes tell different stories

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

Horizontal gene transfer in osmotrophs: playing with public goods

(2013) Thomas A. Richards et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Cooperatively Generated Stresslet Flows Supply Fresh Fluid to Multicellular Choanoflagellate Colonies

(2013) Marcus Roper et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Oxygen, ecology, and the Cambrian radiation of animals

(2013) E. A. Sperling et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Surviving in a Marine Desert: The Sponge Loop Retains Resources Within Coral Reefs

(2013) Jasper M. de Goeij et al.   SCIENCE

The Genome of the Ctenophore Mnemiopsis leidyi and Its Implications for Cell Type Evolution

(2013) J. F. Ryan et al.   SCIENCE

The Revised Classification of Eukaryotes

(2012) Sina M. Adl et al.   JOURNAL OF EUKARYOTIC MICROBIOLOGY

Scale microfossils from the mid-Neoproterozoic Fifteenmile Group, Yukon Territory

(2012) Phoebe A. Cohen et al.   JOURNAL OF PALEONTOLOGY

Shedding Light on Vampires: The Phylogeny of Vampyrellid Amoebae Revisited

(2012) Sebastian Hess et al.   PLoS One

A bacterial sulfonolipid triggers multicellular development in the closest living relatives of animals

(2012) Rosanna A Alegado et al.   eLife

The Multiple Origins of Complex Multicellularity

(2011) Andrew H. Knoll   Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Recalcitrant Dissolved Organic Carbon Fractions

(2011) Dennis A. Hansell   Annual Review of Marine Science

Ecological drivers of the Ediacaran-Cambrian diversification of Metazoa

(2011) Douglas H. Erwin et al.   EVOLUTIONARY ECOLOGY

The rise of predators

(2011) Susannah Porter   GEOLOGY

Phosphate biomineralization in mid-Neoproterozoic protists

(2011) Phoebe A. Cohen et al.   GEOLOGY

Epithelia, an Evolutionary Novelty of Metazoans

(2011) Sally P. Leys et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL ZOOLOGY PART B-MOLECULAR AND DEVELOPMENTAL EVOLUTION

Estimating the timing of early eukaryotic diversification with multigene molecular clocks

(2011) L. W. Parfrey et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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

(2011) D. H. Erwin et al.   SCIENCE

Resolving Difficult Phylogenetic Questions: Why More Sequences Are Not Enough

(2011) Hervé Philippe et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Tracing 13C-enriched dissolved and particulate organic carbon in the bacteria-containing coral reef sponge Halisarca caerulea: Evidence for DOM-feeding

(2010) Jasper M. de Goeij et al.   LIMNOLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY

Improved Phylogenomic Taxon Sampling Noticeably Affects Nonbilaterian Relationships

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

The energetics of genome complexity

(2010) Nick Lane et al.   NATURE

Microbial production of recalcitrant dissolved organic matter: long-term carbon storage in the global ocean

(2010) Nianzhi Jiao et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Endocytosis-like protein uptake in the bacterium Gemmata obscuriglobus

(2010) T. G. A. Lonhienne et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Animals and the invention of the Phanerozoic Earth system

(2010) Nicholas J. Butterfield   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

The origins of phagocytosis and eukaryogenesis

(2009) Natalya Yutin et al.   Biology Direct

Phylogenomics Revives Traditional Views on Deep Animal Relationships

(2009) Hervé Philippe et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Cell kinetics of the marine sponge Halisarca caerulea reveal rapid cell turnover and shedding

(2009) J. M. De Goeij et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL 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

The living strategy of nematophagous fungi

(2009) Xingzhong Liu et al.   MYCOSCIENCE

The microbial loop – 25 years later

(2008) Tom Fenchel   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL MARINE BIOLOGY AND ECOLOGY

Xenoturbella(Deuterostomia) probably feeds on dissolved organic matter

(2008) Olle Israelsson   Marine Biology Research

Major bulk dissolved organic carbon (DOC) removal by encrusting coral reef cavity sponges

(2008) JM de Goeij et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

Broad phylogenomic sampling improves resolution of the animal tree of life

(2008) Casey W. Dunn et al.   NATURE

Molecular phylogeny of choanoflagellates, the sister group to Metazoa

(2008) M. Carr et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Phagosome maturation during the removal of apoptotic cells: receptors lead the way

(2008) Zheng Zhou et al.   TRENDS IN CELL BIOLOGY