title: Animal phylogeny: fatal attraction.
abstract: MPhylogenetic analyses of hundreds of genes from model animals have placed flies closer to vertebrates than to nematodes; recent work suggests this may be due to an artefact known as long branch attraction.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biology, University College London, Darwin Building, UK.
authors.forename: Maximilian J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Telford
authors.forename: Richard R
authors.initials: RR
authors.lastname: Copley
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002965:Classification / Q000379:methods*; D019143:Evolution, Molecular; D020224:Expressed Sequence Tags; D005796:Genes / Q000235:genetics*; D007448:Invertebrates / Q000235:genetics*; D008957:Models, Genetic; D010802:Phylogeny; D012107:Research Design; D014714:Vertebrates / Q000235:genetics*