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 …

A broad‐taxa approach as an important concept in ecotoxicological studies and pollution monitoring

A Rosner, L Ballarin, S Barnay‐Verdier… - Biological …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Aquatic invertebrates play a pivotal role in (eco) toxicological assessments because they
offer ethical, cost‐effective and repeatable testing options. Additionally, their significance in …

The interrelationships of land plants and the nature of the ancestral embryophyte

MN Puttick, JL Morris, TA Williams, CJ Cox, D Edwards… - Current Biology, 2018 - cell.com
The evolutionary emergence of land plant body plans transformed the planet. However, our
understanding of this formative episode is mired in the uncertainty associated with the …

Phylotranscriptomic consolidation of the jawed vertebrate timetree

I Irisarri, D Baurain, H Brinkmann, F Delsuc… - Nature ecology & …, 2017 - nature.com
Phylogenomics is extremely powerful but introduces new challenges as no agreement exists
on 'standards' for data selection, curation and tree inference. We use jawed vertebrates …

Genomic data do not support comb jellies as the sister group to all other animals

D Pisani, W Pett, M Dohrmann… - Proceedings of the …, 2015 - National Acad Sciences
Understanding how complex traits, such as epithelia, nervous systems, muscles, or guts,
originated depends on a well-supported hypothesis about the phylogenetic relationships …

Inference of phylogenetic trees directly from raw sequencing reads using Read2Tree

D Dylus, A Altenhoff, S Majidian, FJ Sedlazeck… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Current methods for inference of phylogenetic trees require running complex pipelines at
substantial computational and labor costs, with additional constraints in sequencing …

[图书][B] The ancient origins of consciousness: How the brain created experience

TE Feinberg, J Mallatt - 2016 - books.google.com
How consciousness appeared much earlier in evolutionary history than is commonly
assumed, and why all vertebrates and perhaps even some invertebrates are conscious …

MACSE: Multiple Alignment of Coding SEquences accounting for frameshifts and stop codons

V Ranwez, S Harispe, F Delsuc, EJP Douzery - PloS one, 2011 - journals.plos.org
Until now the most efficient solution to align nucleotide sequences containing open reading
frames was to use indirect procedures that align amino acid translation before reporting the …

[HTML][HTML] Constraints on the timescale of animal evolutionary history

MJ Benton, PCJ Donoghue, RJ Asher, M Friedman… - 2015 - palaeo-electronica.org
Dating the tree of life is a core endeavor in evolutionary biology. Rates of evolution are
fundamental to nearly every evolutionary model and process. Rates need dates. There is …

A phylogenomic framework and timescale for comparative studies of tunicates

F Delsuc, H Philippe, G Tsagkogeorga, P Simion… - Bmc Biology, 2018 - Springer
Background Tunicates are the closest relatives of vertebrates and are widely used as
models to study the evolutionary developmental biology of chordates. Their phylogeny …