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A New Spiralian Phylogeny Places the Enigmatic Arrow Worms among Gnathiferans

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Marlétaz, Ferdinand, Peijnenburg, Katja T.C.A., Goto, Taichiro, Satoh, Noriyuki, Rokhsar, Daniel S.·2019·Current Biology

DOI 10.1016/j.cub.2018.11.042

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Chaetognaths (arrow worms) are an enigmatic group of marine animals whose phylogenetic position remains elusive, in part because they display a mix of developmental and morphological characters associated with other groups [1, 2]. In particular, it remains unclear whether they are a sister group to protostomes [1, 2], one of the principal animal superclades, or whether they bear a closer relationship with some spiralian phyla [3, 4]. Addressing the phylogenetic position of chaetognaths and refining our understanding of relationships among spiralians are essential to fully comprehend character changes during bilaterian evolution [5]. To tackle these questions, we generated new transcriptomes for ten chaetognath species, compiling an extensive phylogenomic dataset that maximizes data occupancy and taxonomic representation. We employed inference methods that consider rate and compositional heterogeneity across taxa to avoid limitations of earlier analyses [6]. In this way, we greatly improved the resolution of the protostome tree of life. We find that chaetognaths cluster together with rotifers, gnathostomulids, and micrognathozoans within an expanded Gnathifera clade and that this clade is the sister group to other spiralians [7, 8]. Our analysis shows that several previously proposed groupings are likely due to systematic error, and we propose a revised organization of Lophotrochozoa with three main clades: Tetraneuralia (mollusks and entoprocts), Lophophorata (brachiopods, phoronids, and ectoprocts), and a third unnamed clade gathering annelids, nemerteans, and platyhelminthes. Consideration of classical morphological, developmental, and genomic characters in light of this topology indicates secondary loss as a fundamental trend in spiralian evolution.

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Authors: Marlétaz, F., Peijnenburg, K. T. C. A., Goto, T., Satoh, N., & Rokhsar, D. S.
Affiliations: Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (JP)
Naturalis Biodiversity Center (NL)
Mie University (JP)
Corresponding author: Marlétaz, Ferdinand
ORCID: Marlétaz, Ferdinand
Peijnenburg, Katja T.C.A.
Satoh, Noriyuki
Rokhsar, Daniel S.
Venue: Current Biology
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Published: 2019-01
Volume: 29
Issue: 2
Pages: 312-318.e3
ISSN: 0960-9822 (ISSN-L)
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2018.11.042
OpenAlex: W2908647854
Cited by: 268
References: 50
Citations by year: 2026: 24 · 2025: 33 · 2024: 28 · 2023: 34 · 2022: 30 · 2021: 45 · 2020: 41 · 2019: 32
FWCI: 29.93
Type: journal article
Language: en
Open access: bronze
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Funders: Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University
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Topics: Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics › Invertebrate Taxonomy and Ecology
Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Animal Science and Zoology › Marine Invertebrate Physiology and Ecology
Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
Keywords: chaetognaths, Gnathifera, Lophotrochozoa, phylogenomics, transcriptome, rotifers, Lophophorata, secondary losses, bilaterian evolution, compositional heterogeneity
MeSH terms: Animals, Invertebrates, Phylogeny, Evolution, Molecular, Transcriptome

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