title: Meeting report on "Animal Evolution: New Perspectives From Early Emerging Metazoans", Tutzing, September 14-17, 2015.
abstract: This recent meeting covered non-bilaterian (e.g., cnidarians, ctenophores, and sponges) animals broadly, but with emphasis in four areas: 1) New genomic resources and tools for functional studies, 2) advances in developmental and regeneration studies, 3) the evolution and function of nervous systems, 4) symbiosis and the holobiome.
authors.affiliation: Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of California Davis, One Shields Avenue, Davis, CA, USA.
authors.forename: Celina E
authors.initials: CE
authors.lastname: Juliano
authors.affiliation: Center for Molecular Biosciences, Institute of Zoology, University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria.
authors.forename: Bert
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Hobmayer
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D005075:Biological Evolution; D002874:Chromosome Mapping; D003063:Cnidaria / Q000166:cytology / Q000235:genetics / Q000254:growth & development; D016678:Genome; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA; D013234:Stem Cells / Q000502:physiology; D013559:Symbiosis