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TranslatorX: multiple alignment of nucleotide sequences guided by amino acid translations
- F. Abascal, R. Zardoya, M. J. Telford
- Biology, Computer Science
- Nucleic Acids Res.
- 30 April 2010
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Acoelomorph flatworms are deuterostomes related to Xenoturbella
- H. Philippe, H. Brinkmann, +6 authors M. J. Telford
- Biology, Medicine
- Nature
- 10 February 2011
Xenoturbellida and Acoelomorpha are marine worms with contentious ancestry. Both were originally associated with the flatworms (Platyhelminthes), but molecular data have revised their phylogenetic… Expand
Deuterostome phylogeny reveals monophyletic chordates and the new phylum Xenoturbellida
- S. Bourlat, Thorhildur Juliusdottir, +11 authors M. J. Telford
- Biology, Medicine
- Nature
- 2 November 2006
Deuterostomes comprise vertebrates, the related invertebrate chordates (tunicates and cephalochordates) and three other invertebrate taxa: hemichordates, echinoderms and Xenoturbella. The… Expand
MicroRNAs and phylogenomics resolve the relationships of Tardigrada and suggest that velvet worms are the sister group of Arthropoda
- Lahcen I. Campbell, Omar Rota-Stabelli, +7 authors D. Pisani
- Biology, Medicine
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
- 6 September 2011
Morphological data traditionally group Tardigrada (water bears), Onychophora (velvet worms), and Arthropoda (e.g., spiders, insects, and their allies) into a monophyletic group of invertebrates with… Expand
Consideration of RNA secondary structure significantly improves likelihood-based estimates of phylogeny: examples from the bilateria.
- M. J. Telford, M. J. Wise, Vivek Gowri-Shankar
- Biology, Medicine
- Molecular biology and evolution
- 1 April 2005
Sequences from ribosomal RNA (rRNA) genes have made a huge contribution to our current understanding of metazoan phylogeny and indeed the phylogeny of all of life. That said, some parts of this… Expand
Uncertainty in the Timing of Origin of Animals and the Limits of Precision in Molecular Timescales
- Mario dos Reis, Y. Thawornwattana, K. Angelis, M. J. Telford, P. Donoghue, Z. Yang
- Biology, Medicine
- Current Biology
- 16 November 2015
Summary The timing of divergences among metazoan lineages is integral to understanding the processes of animal evolution, placing the biological events of species divergences into the correct… Expand
A congruent solution to arthropod phylogeny: phylogenomics, microRNAs and morphology support monophyletic Mandibulata
- Omar Rota-Stabelli, Lahcen I. Campbell, +6 authors M. J. Telford
- Biology, Medicine
- Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological…
- 22 January 2011
While a unique origin of the euarthropods is well established, relationships between the four euarthropod classes—chelicerates, myriapods, crustaceans and hexapods—are less clear. Unsolved questions… Expand
Hox genes and the phylogeny of the arthropods
- C. Cook, M. Smith, M. J. Telford, Alberto Bastianello, M. Akam
- Biology, Medicine
- Current Biology
- 15 May 2001
The arthropods are the most speciose, and among the most morphologically diverse, of the animal phyla. Their evolution has been the subject of intense research for well over a century, yet the… Expand
Evidence for the derivation of the Drosophila fushi tarazu gene from a Hox gene orthologous to lophotrochozoan Lox5
- M. J. Telford
- Biology, Medicine
- Current Biology
- 15 March 2000
The DNA-binding homeobox motif was first identified in several Drosophila homeotic genes but also in fushi tarazu, a gene found in the Hox cluster yet involved in segmentation, not anteroposterior… Expand
Xenoturbella is a deuterostome that eats molluscs
- S. Bourlat, C. Nielsen, A. Lockyer, D. J. Littlewood, M. J. Telford
- Biology, Medicine
- Nature
- 21 August 2003
Xenoturbella bocki, first described in 1949 (ref. 1), is a delicate, ciliated, marine worm with a simple body plan: it lacks a through gut, organized gonads, excretory structures and coelomic… Expand