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 …

Morphology should not be forgotten in the era of genomics–a phylogenetic perspective

G Giribet - Zoologischer Anzeiger-A Journal of Comparative …, 2015 - Elsevier
Morphology has traditionally played a pivotal role in animal phylogeny since the first
evolutionary biologists began to decipher the animal tree of life. In recent times, however …

[HTML][HTML] A new spiralian phylogeny places the enigmatic arrow worms among gnathiferans

F Marlétaz, KTCA Peijnenburg, T Goto, N Satoh… - Current Biology, 2019 - cell.com
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 …

Active torque generation by the actomyosin cell cortex drives left–right symmetry breaking

SR Naganathan, S Fürthauer, M Nishikawa, F Jülicher… - elife, 2014 - elifesciences.org
Many developmental processes break left–right (LR) symmetry with a consistent
handedness. LR asymmetry emerges early in development, and in many species the …

A congruent topology for deep gastropod relationships

TJ Cunha, G Giribet - Proceedings of the Royal Society …, 2019 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Gastropod molluscs are among the most diverse and abundant animals in the oceans, and
are successful colonizers of terrestrial and freshwater environments. Past phylogenetic …

New phylogenomic data support the monophyly of Lophophorata and an Ectoproct-Phoronid clade and indicate that Polyzoa and Kryptrochozoa are caused by …

MP Nesnidal, M Helmkampf, A Meyer, A Witek… - BMC evolutionary …, 2013 - Springer
Background Within the complex metazoan phylogeny, the relationships of the three
lophophorate lineages, ectoprocts, brachiopods and phoronids, are particularly elusive. To …

Helical growth in plant organs: mechanisms and significance

DR Smyth - Development, 2016 - journals.biologists.com
Many plants show some form of helical growth, such as the circular searching movements of
growing stems and other organs (circumnutation), tendril coiling, leaf and bud reversal …

The evolutionary origins of glia

DK Hartline - Glia, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
The evolutionary origins of glia are lost in time, as soft tissues rarely leave behind fossil
footprints, and any molecular footprints they might have been left we have yet to decipher …

Spiralian genomics and the evolution of animal genome architecture

IJY Liao, TM Lu, ME Chen, YJ Luo - Briefings in Functional …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Recent developments in sequencing technologies have greatly improved our knowledge of
phylogenetic relationships and genomic architectures throughout the tree of life. Spiralia, a …

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

A Hejnol, CJ Lowe - … Transactions of the Royal Society B …, 2015 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Molecular biology has provided a rich dataset to develop hypotheses of nervous system
evolution. The startling patterning similarities between distantly related animals during the …