The New View of Animal Phylogeny

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A comprehensive analysis of bilaterian mitochondrial genomes and phylogeny

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Additional molecular support for the new chordate phylogeny

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The origins of multicellular organisms

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Platyzoan Paraphyly Based on Phylogenomic Data Supports a Noncoelomate Ancestry of Spiralia

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Improvement of molecular phylogenetic inference and the phylogeny of Bilateria

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Large-scale sequencing and the new animal phylogeny

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Buddenbrockia Is a Cnidarian Worm

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Evolution of striated muscle: Jellyfish and the origin of triploblasty

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Gulf of Mexico origin, waters, and biota

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Lack of Resolution in the Animal Phylogeny: Closely Spaced Cladogeneses or Undetected Systematic Errors?

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Distinguishing heat from light in debate over controversial fossils

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Amphioxus and tunicates as evolutionary model systems

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Phylogenomic analyses of lophophorates (brachiopods, phoronids and bryozoans) confirm the Lophotrochozoa concept

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Man is but a worm: Chordate origins

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Evolution of Sexual Reproduction in Marine Invertebrates

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Embracing the comparative approach: how robust phylogenies and broader developmental sampling impacts the understanding of nervous system evolution

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Back in time: a new systematic proposal for the Bilateria

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The telomere repeat motif of basal Metazoa

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Phylogenetic distribution of microRNAs supports the basal position of acoel flatworms and the polyphyly of Platyhelminthes

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Mitochondrial Genome and Nuclear Sequence Data Support Myzostomida As Part of the Annelid Radiation

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Model Systems of Invertebrate Allorecognition

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Moving towards a complete molecular framework of the Nematoda: a focus on the Enoplida and early-branching clades

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