The new animal phylogeny: reliability and implications.
DNA sequence analysis dictates new interpretation of phylogenic trees. Taxa that were once thought to represent successive grades of complexity at the base of the metazoan tree are being displaced to much higher positions inside the tree. This leaves no evolutionary "intermediates" and forces us to rethink the genesis of bilaterian complexity.
Adoutte
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Centre de Génétique Moléculaire, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Bâtiment 26, 91198 Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex, France. adoutte@cgm.cnrs-gif.fr
Balavoine
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G
Lartillot
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N
Lespinet
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O
Prud'homme
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B
de Rosa
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R
D000818:Animals; D005075:Biological Evolution; D004247:DNA / Q000235:genetics; D019143:Evolution, Molecular; D005801:Genes, Homeobox; D007448:Invertebrates / Q000145:classification / Q000235:genetics; D008967:Molecular Biology / Q000379:methods; D010802:Phylogeny; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D014714:Vertebrates / Q000145:classification / Q000235:genetics
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