Broad phylogenomic sampling improves resolution of the animal tree of life

@article{Dunn2008BroadPS,
  title={Broad phylogenomic sampling improves resolution of the animal tree of life},
  author={C. Dunn and A. Hejnol and David Q. Matus and K. Pang and W. E. Browne and Stephen A. Smith and E. Seaver and G. Rouse and M. Obst and G. Edgecombe and M. V. S{\o}rensen and S. Haddock and A. Schmidt‐Rhaesa and Akiko Okusu and R. Kristensen and W. Wheeler and M. Martindale and G. Giribet},
  journal={Nature},
  year={2008},
  volume={452},
  pages={745-749}
}
Long-held ideas regarding the evolutionary relationships among animals have recently been upended by sometimes controversial hypotheses based largely on insights from molecular data. These new hypotheses include a clade of moulting animals (Ecdysozoa) and the close relationship of the lophophorates to molluscs and annelids (Lophotrochozoa). Many relationships remain disputed, including those that are required to polarize key features of character evolution, and support for deep nodes is often… Expand
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  • Biology, Medicine
  • Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
  • 2009
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