Recent developments in sequencing technologies have greatly improved our knowledge of
phylogenetic relationships and genomic architectures throughout the tree of life. Spiralia, a …

Phoronids, together with brachiopods and bryozoans, form the animal clade Lophophorata.
Modern lophophorates are quite diverse—some can biomineralize while others are soft …

Orthonectida is an enigmatic group of animals with still uncertain phylogenetic position.
Orthonectids parasitize various marine invertebrates. Their life cycle comprises a parasitic …

Orthonectids are enigmatic parasitic bilaterians whose exact position on the phylogenetic
tree is still uncertain. Despite ongoing debate about their phylogenetic position, the parasitic …

Orthonectida is a group of multicellular endoparasites of a wide range of marine
invertebrates. Their parasitic stage is a multinuclear shapeless plasmodium infiltrating host …

Genome-wide information has so far been unavailable for ribbon worms of the clade
Hoplonemertea, the most species-rich class within the phylum Nemertea. While species …

The Cambrian fossil Amiskwia sagittiformis has puzzled palaeontologists for more than a
century, but recent re-investigation of its morphology suggested a close relationship with the …

Trace fossils preserved with fossil worm-shaped remains suggest the presence of free-living
flatworms during the Ordovician at the latest and their occurrence in terrestrial environments …

Tissue inhibitors of metalloproteinase (TIMPs) play a pivotal role in regulating extracellular
matrix (ECM) dynamics and have been extensively studied in vertebrates. However …

Comparisons of multiple metazoan genomes have revealed the existence of ancestral
linkage groups (ALGs), genomic scaffolds sharing sets of orthologous genes that have been …