Resolving animal phylogeny: a sledgehammer for a tough nut?
While great progress toward discovering the evolutionary relationships of major animal groups has been made in the past 2 decades, significant portions of the animal tree remain unresolved. A recent manuscript in Nature by Dunn and colleagues tackles this problem using massive sequence data sets from many taxa-the so-called "phylogenomic" approach.
Telford
Maximilian J
MJ
Department of Genetics, Environment and Evolution, University College London, Darwin Building, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, UK. m.telford@ucl.ac.uk
D000818:Animals; D030561:Databases, Nucleic Acid; D016678:Genome; D023281:Genomics; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D010802:Phylogeny; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA