Divergence times in demosponges (Porifera): first insights from new mitogenomes and the inclusion of fossils in a birth-death clock model

The timescale of early land plant evolution

(2018) Jennifer L. Morris et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Dating early animal evolution using phylogenomic data

(2017) Martin Dohrmann et al.   Scientific Reports

Animal Mitochondrial DNA as We Do Not Know It: mt-Genome Organization and Evolution in Nonbilaterian Lineages

(2016) Dennis V. Lavrov et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

A highly diverse siliceous sponge fauna (Porifera: Hexactinellida, Demospongiae) from the Eocene of north-eastern Italy: systematics and palaeoecology

(2016) Viviana Frisone et al.   JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC PALAEONTOLOGY

Species relationships and divergence times in beeches: new insights from the inclusion of 53 young and old fossils in a birth–death clock model

(2016) S. S. Renner et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Sterol and genomic analyses validate the sponge biomarker hypothesis

(2016) David A. Gold et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Early divergence dates of demosponges based on mitogenomics and evaluated fossil calibrations

(2016) Jun-Ye Ma et al.   Palaeoworld

The complete mitochondrial genome of the lobe coral Porites lobata (Anthozoa: Scleractinia) sequenced using ezRAD

(2016) Kaho H. Tisthammer et al.   Mitochondrial DNA Part B-Resources

Mitochondrial genomes of the freshwater sponges Spongilla lacustris and Ephydatia cf. muelleri

(2016) Warren Russell Francis et al.   Mitochondrial DNA Part B-Resources

The complete mitochondrial genome of Achatinella mustelina (Gastropoda: Pulmonata: Stylommatophora)

(2016) Melissa R. Price et al.   Mitochondrial DNA Part B-Resources

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

(2015) Mario dos Reis et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Sponge grade body fossil with cellular resolution dating 60 Myr before the Cambrian

(2015) Zongjun Yin et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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

(2014) Alexandros Stamatakis   BIOINFORMATICS

The complete mitochondrial genome of the deep-sea stony coralSolenosmilia variabilis(Scleractinia, Caryophylliidae) and its inter-individual variation

(2014) Cong Zeng et al.   Mitochondrial DNA

A crown-group demosponge from the early Cambrian Sirius Passet Biota, North Greenland

(2014) Joseph P. Botting et al.   PALAEONTOLOGY

The fossilized birth-death process for coherent calibration of divergence-time estimates

(2014) T. A. Heath et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Using More Than the Oldest Fossils: Dating Osmundaceae with Three Bayesian Clock Approaches

(2014) G. W. Grimm et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

BEAST 2: A Software Platform for Bayesian Evolutionary Analysis

(2014) Remco Bouckaert et al.   PLoS Computational Biology

Beyond fossil calibrations: realities of molecular clock practices in evolutionary biology

(2014) Christy A. Hipsley et al.   Frontiers in Genetics

PEAR: a fast and accurate Illumina Paired-End reAd mergeR

(2013) J. Zhang et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Phylogeny and Systematics of Demospongiae in Light of New Small-Subunit Ribosomal DNA (18S) Sequences

(2013) N. E. Redmond et al.   INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY

A First Account of Freshwater Potamolepid Sponges (Demospongiae, Spongillina, Potamolepidae) from the Middle Eocene: Biogeographic and Paleoclimatic Implications

(2013) Andrzej Pisera et al.   JOURNAL OF PALEONTOLOGY

Phylogeny of Tetillidae (Porifera, Demospongiae, Spirophorida) based on three molecular markers

(2013) Amir Szitenberg et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

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

(2013) Nicolas Lartillot et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

ezRAD: a simplified method for genomic genotyping in non-model organisms

(2013) Robert J. Toonen et al.   PeerJ

Geneious Basic: An integrated and extendable desktop software platform for the organization and analysis of sequence data

(2012) M. Kearse et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Mitochondrial DNA of Clathrina clathrus (Calcarea, Calcinea): Six Linear Chromosomes, Fragmented rRNAs, tRNA Editing, and a Novel Genetic Code

(2012) Dennis V. Lavrov et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Mitochondrial genomes of the genus Ephydatia Lamouroux, 1816: can palindromic elements be used in species-level studies?

(2012) Mirna Imešek et al.   ORGANISMS DIVERSITY & EVOLUTION

ProtTest 3: fast selection of best-fit models of protein evolution

(2011) Diego Darriba et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

The mitochondrial genome of stygobitic sponge Eunapius subterraneus: mtDNA is highly conserved in freshwater sponges

(2011) Bruna Pleše et al.   HYDROBIOLOGIA

Molecular Phylogeny of the Astrophorida (Porifera, Demospongiaep) Reveals an Unexpected High Level of Spicule Homoplasy

(2011) Paco Cárdenas et al.   PLoS One

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

(2011) D. H. Erwin et al.   SCIENCE

Diversity of sponge mitochondrial introns revealed by cox 1 sequences of Tetillidae

(2010) Amir Szitenberg et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Sampling-through-time in birth–death trees

(2010) Tanja Stadler   JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL BIOLOGY

Oldest record of freshwater sponges (Porifera: Spongillina) — spiculite finds in the Permo-Carboniferous of Europe

(2010) Thomas Schindler et al.   Palaeontologische Zeitschrift

The mitochondrial genomes of sponges provide evidence for multiple invasions by Repetitive Hairpin-forming Elements (RHE)

(2009) Dirk Erpenbeck et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Where's the glass? Biomarkers, molecular clocks, and microRNAs suggest a 200-Myr missing Precambrian fossil record of siliceous sponge spicules

(2009) E. A. SPERLING et al.   Geobiology

Rapid Proliferation of Repetitive Palindromic Elements in mtDNA of the Endemic Baikalian Sponge Lubomirskia baicalensis

(2009) Dennis V. Lavrov   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Fossil steroids record the appearance of Demospongiae during the Cryogenian period

(2009) Gordon D. Love et al.   NATURE

Interpretation of marine and freshwater paleoenvironments in Permo–Carboniferous deposits

(2009) Hans-Peter Schultze   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Reconstructing ordinal relationships in the Demospongiae using mitochondrial genomic data

(2008) Dennis V. Lavrov et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Seventeen New Complete mtDNA Sequences Reveal Extensive Mitochondrial Genome Evolution within the Demospongiae

(2008) Xiujuan Wang et al.   PLoS One