Animal evolution: once upon a time.
The evolutionary relationships between the earliest branches of the animal kingdom - bilaterians, cnidarians, ctenophores, sponges and placozoans - are contentious. A new phylogenomic analysis suggests a return to old ideas.
Telford
Maximilian J
MJ
Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment, University College London, London, UK. m.telford@ucl.ac.uk
D000818:Animals; D005075:Biological Evolution; D005580:Fossils; D023281:Genomics; D010802:Phylogeny