The homeodomain complement of the ctenophore Mnemiopsis leidyi suggests that Ctenophora and Porifera diverged prior to the ParaHoxozoa.
Ryan
Joseph F
JF
Genome Technology Branch, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA. andy@nhgri.nih.gov.
Pang
Kevin
K
Mullikin
James C
JC
Martindale
Mark Q
MQ
Baxevanis
Andreas D
AD