Recent progress in reconstructing animal relationships enables us to draw a better picture of
the evolution of important characters such as organ systems and developmental processes …

Schistosomiasis, caused mainly by Schistosoma japonicum, S. mansoni, and S.
hematobium, remains one of the most prevalent and serious parasitic diseases worldwide …

Phylogenomic studies have improved understanding of deep metazoan phylogeny and
show promise for resolving incongruences among analyses based on limited numbers of …

A clear picture of animal relationships is a prerequisite to understand how the morphological
and ecological diversity of animals evolved over time. Among others, the placement of the …

" Ponder and Lindberg provides a breathtaking overview of the evolutionary history of the
Mollusca, effectively melding information from anatomy, ecology, genomics, and …

Background Annelida comprises an ancient and ecologically important animal phylum with
over 16,500 described species and members are the dominant macrofauna of the deep sea …

Molecular analyses of Aplysia, a well-established model organism for cellular and systems
neural science, have been seriously handicapped by a lack of adequate genomic …

The phylogenomic approach has largely resolved metazoan phylogeny and improved our
knowledge of animal evolution based on morphology, paleontology, and embryology …

The addition of large subunit ribosomal DNA (lsrDNA) to small subunit ribosomal DNA
(ssrDNA) has been shown to add resolution to phylogenies at various taxonomic levels for a …

We present the most comprehensive molecular phylogeny of bryozoans to date. Our
concatenated alignment of two nuclear ribosomal and five mitochondrial genes includes 95 …