Insect mitochondrial genomics: implications for evolution and phylogeny

SL Cameron - Annual review of entomology, 2014 - annualreviews.org
The mitochondrial (mt) genome is, to date, the most extensively studied genomic system in
insects, outnumbering nuclear genomes tenfold and representing all orders versus very few …

Examples of extreme survival: tardigrade genomics and molecular anhydrobiology

K Arakawa - Annual review of animal biosciences, 2022 - annualreviews.org
Tardigrades are ubiquitous meiofauna that are especially renowned for their exceptional
extremotolerance to various adverse environments, including pressure, temperature, and …

No evidence for extensive horizontal gene transfer in the genome of the tardigrade Hypsibius dujardini

G Koutsovoulos, S Kumar… - Proceedings of the …, 2016 - National Acad Sciences
Tardigrades are meiofaunal ecdysozoans that are key to understanding the origins of
Arthropoda. Many species of Tardigrada can survive extreme conditions through …

[HTML][HTML] Molecular timetrees reveal a Cambrian colonization of land and a new scenario for ecdysozoan evolution

O Rota-Stabelli, AC Daley, D Pisani - Current Biology, 2013 - cell.com
Ecdysozoans have been key components of ecosystems since the early Cambrian, when
trilobites and soft-bodied Burgess Shale-type ecdysozoans dominated marine animal …

Phylogeny of Eutardigrada: New molecular data and their morphological support lead to the identification of new evolutionary lineages

R Bertolani, R Guidetti, T Marchioro, T Altiero… - Molecular phylogenetics …, 2014 - Elsevier
An extensive study of the phylogeny of Eutardigrada, the largest class of Tardigrada, has
been performed analyzing one hundred and forty sequences (eighty of which newly …

Cnidarian phylogenetic relationships as revealed by mitogenomics

E Kayal, B Roure, H Philippe, AG Collins… - BMC evolutionary …, 2013 - Springer
Background Cnidaria (corals, sea anemones, hydroids, jellyfish) is a phylum of relatively
simple aquatic animals characterized by the presence of the cnidocyst: a cell containing a …

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 …

Capturing the phylogeny of Holometabola with mitochondrial genome data and Bayesian site-heterogeneous mixture models

F Song, H Li, P Jiang, X Zhou, J Liu… - Genome Biology and …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
After decades of debate, a mostly satisfactory resolution of relationships among the 11
recognized holometabolan orders of insects has been reached based on nuclear genes …

MicroRNAs and phylogenomics resolve the relationships of Tardigrada and suggest that velvet worms are the sister group of Arthropoda

LI Campbell, O Rota-Stabelli… - Proceedings of the …, 2011 - National Acad Sciences
Morphological data traditionally group Tardigrada (water bears), Onychophora (velvet
worms), and Arthropoda (eg, spiders, insects, and their allies) into a monophyletic group of …

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 …