Higher-level metazoan relationships: recent progress and remaining questions

GD Edgecombe, G Giribet, CW Dunn, A Hejnol… - Organisms Diversity & …, 2011 - Springer
Metazoa comprises 35–40 phyla that include some 1.3 million described species.
Phylogenetic analyses of metazoan interrelationships have progressed in the past two …

The origin and evolution of arthropods

GE Budd, MJ Telford - Nature, 2009 - nature.com
The past two decades have witnessed profound changes in our understanding of the
evolution of arthropods. Many of these insights derive from the adoption of molecular …

A comprehensive analysis of bilaterian mitochondrial genomes and phylogeny

M Bernt, C Bleidorn, A Braband, J Dambach… - Molecular Phylogenetics …, 2013 - Elsevier
About 2800 mitochondrial genomes of Metazoa are present in NCBI RefSeq today, two
thirds belonging to vertebrates. Metazoan phylogeny was recently challenged by large scale …

A congruent solution to arthropod phylogeny: phylogenomics, microRNAs and morphology support monophyletic Mandibulata

O Rota-Stabelli, L Campbell… - … of the Royal …, 2011 - royalsocietypublishing.org
While a unique origin of the euarthropods is well established, relationships between the four
euarthropod classes—chelicerates, myriapods, crustaceans and hexapods—are less clear …

The evolution of the Ecdysozoa

MJ Telford, SJ Bourlat, A Economou… - … of the Royal …, 2008 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Ecdysozoa is a clade composed of eight phyla: the arthropods, tardigrades and
onychophorans that share segmentation and appendages and the nematodes …

Arthropod phylogeny: an overview from the perspectives of morphology, molecular data and the fossil record

GD Edgecombe - Arthropod Structure & Development, 2010 - Elsevier
Monophyly of Arthropoda is emphatically supported from both morphological and molecular
perspectives. Recent work finds Onychophora rather than Tardigrada to be the closest …

Ecdysozoan mitogenomics: evidence for a common origin of the legged invertebrates, the Panarthropoda

O Rota-Stabelli, E Kayal, D Gleeson… - Genome biology and …, 2010 - academic.oup.com
Ecdysozoa is the recently recognized clade of molting animals that comprises the vast
majority of extant animal species and the most important invertebrate model organisms—the …

The metazoan landscape of mitochondrial DNA gene order and content is shaped by selection and affects mitochondrial transcription

N Shtolz, D Mishmar - Communications Biology, 2023 - nature.com
Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) harbors essential genes in most metazoans, yet the regulatory
impact of the multiple evolutionary mtDNA rearrangements has been overlooked. Here, by …

A transcriptome approach to ecdysozoan phylogeny

J Borner, P Rehm, RO Schill, I Ebersberger… - Molecular Phylogenetics …, 2014 - Elsevier
The monophyly of Ecdysozoa, which comprise molting phyla, has received strong support
from several lines of evidence. However, the internal relationships of Ecdysozoa are still …

The choice of model organisms in evo–devo

RA Jenner, MA Wills - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2007 - nature.com
Study of the model organisms of developmental biology was crucial in establishing evo–
devo as a new discipline. However, it has been claimed that this limited sample of …