Animal Evolution: Interrelationships of the Living Phyla
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This book provides a comprehensive analysis of evolution in the animal kingdom. It reviews the classical, morphological information from structure and embryology, as well as the new data gained from studies using immune stainings of nerves and muscles and blastomere markings, which makes it possible to follow the fate of single blastomeres all the way to early organogenesis. Until recently, the information from analyses of gene sequences has tended to produce myriads of quite diverging trees. However, the latest generation of molecular methods, using many genes, expressed sequence tags, and even whole genomes, has brought a new stability to the field. The book brings together the information from these varied fields, and demonstrates that it is indeed now possible to build a phylogenetic tree from a combination of both morphology and gene sequences. This thoroughly revised third edition brings the subject fully up to date, especially in light of the latest advances in molecular techniques. The book is illustrated throughout with finely detailed line drawings and clear diagrams, many of them new.
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Phylogenetic analyses with Ctenophora represented by Pleurobrachia and Mnemiopsis suggest the placement of Ctenophora as the most basal animal lineage.
“Althoughrelationshipsamongbasalanimallineagesarecontroversial 1,10-16 , our analyses (Supplementary Data 4) with Ctenophora represented by Pleurobrachia and Mnemiopsis suggest the placement of Ctenophora as the most basal animal lineage (Fig. 1 and Extended Data Fig. 3).”
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- Authors
- Nielsen, C.
- Affiliations
- University of Copenhagen (DK)
- Corresponding author
- Nielsen, Claus
- ORCID
- Nielsen, Claus
- Venue
- Oxford University Press eBooks
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Published
- 2011-12-08
- OpenAlex
- W4245957896
- Cited by
- 74
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- FWCI
- 2.87
- Type
- book
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Oxford University Press eBooks (publishedVersion)
- Research at the University of Copenhagen (University of Copenhagen) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Developmental Biology and Gene Regulation
- Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Paleontology › Marine Invertebrate Physiology and Ecology
- Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Paleontology › Evolution and Paleontology Studies
- Keywords
- animal evolution, animal phylogeny, comparative morphology, embryology, blastomere fate, organogenesis, gene expression, phylogenetic tree, molecular phylogeny, expressed sequence tags, whole genome sequencing
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