ReviewPhilosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences2008
Assembling the lophotrochozoan (=spiralian) tree of life.
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- Spiralian Genomes Reveal Gene Family Expansions Associated with Adaptation to Freshwater.Journal of molecular evolution · 2020Article
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- Dicyemid Mesozoans: A Unique Parasitic Lifestyle and a Reduced Genome.Genome biology and evolution · 2019Article
- Evolutionary Implications of the microRNA- and piRNA Complement ofNon-coding RNA · 2019Article
- Gene expression profiles of dicyemid life-cycle stages may explain how dispersing larvae locate new hosts.Zoological letters · 2019Article
- A Revised Spiralian Homeobox Gene Classification Incorporating New Polychaete Transcriptomes Reveals a Diverse TALE Class and a Divergent Hox Gene.Genome biology and evolution · 2018Article
- SUMOylation controls stem cell proliferation and regional cell death through Hedgehog signaling in planarians.Cellular and molecular life sciences : CMLS · 2018Article
- Helminths and Cancers From the Evolutionary Perspective.Frontiers in medicine · 2018Review
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Abstract
The advent of numerical methods for analysing phylogenetic relationships, along with the study of morphology and molecular data, has driven our understanding of animal relationships for the past three decades. Within the protostome branch of the animal tree of life, these data have sufficed to establish its two main side branches, the moulting Ecdysozoa and the non-moulting Lophotrochozoa. In this review, I explore our current knowledge of protostome relationships and discuss progress and future perspectives and strategies to increase resolution within the main lophotrochozoan clades. Novel approaches to coding morphological characters are needed by scoring real observations on species selected as terminals. Still, methodological issues, for example, how to deal with inapplicable characters or the coding of absences, may require novel algorithmic developments. Taxon sampling is another key issue, as phyla should include enough species so as to represent their span of anatomical disparity. On the molecular side, phylogenomics is playing an increasingly important role in elucidating animal relationships, but genomic sampling is still fairly limited within the lophotrochozoan protostomes, for which only three phyla are represented in currently available phylogenies. Future work should therefore concentrate on generating novel morphological observations and on producing genomic data for the lophotrochozoan side of the animal tree of life.
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