Worms and gills, plates and spines: the evolutionary origins and incredible disparity of deuterostomes revealed by fossils, genes, and development

K Nanglu, SR Cole, DF Wright, C Souto - Biological Reviews, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Deuterostomes are the major division of animal life which includes sea stars, acorn worms,
and humans, among a wide variety of ecologically and morphologically disparate taxa …

Origin and early evolution of echinoderms

IA Rahman, S Zamora - Annual Review of Earth and Planetary …, 2024 - annualreviews.org
Echinoderms are a major group (phylum) of invertebrate animals with a rich fossil record
stretching back to the Cambrian period, approximately 518 million years ago. While all …

MirGeneDB 2.1: toward a complete sampling of all major animal phyla

B Fromm, E Høye, D Domanska, X Zhong… - Nucleic acids …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
We describe an update of MirGeneDB, the manually curated microRNA gene database.
Adhering to uniform and consistent criteria for microRNA annotation and nomenclature, we …

Xenacoelomorpha is the sister group to Nephrozoa

JT Cannon, BC Vellutini, J Smith, F Ronquist… - Nature, 2016 - nature.com
The position of Xenacoelomorpha in the tree of life remains a major unresolved question in
the study of deep animal relationships. Xenacoelomorpha, comprising Acoela …

Hemichordate genomes and deuterostome origins

O Simakov, T Kawashima, F Marlétaz, J Jenkins… - Nature, 2015 - nature.com
Acorn worms, also known as enteropneust (literally,'gut-breathing') hemichordates, are
marine invertebrates that share features with echinoderms and chordates. Together, these …

Molecular evidence of anteroposterior patterning in adult echinoderms

L Formery, P Peluso, I Kohnle, J Malnick, JR Thompson… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
The origin of the pentaradial body plan of echinoderms from a bilateral ancestor is one of the
most enduring zoological puzzles,. Because echinoderms are defined by morphological …

The crown-of-thorns starfish genome as a guide for biocontrol of this coral reef pest

MR Hall, KM Kocot, KW Baughman… - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
The crown-of-thorns starfish (COTS, the Acanthaster planci species group) is a highly fecund
predator of reef-building corals throughout the Indo-Pacific region. COTS population …

Chromosome-level genome assemblies of 2 hemichordates provide new insights into deuterostome origin and chromosome evolution

CY Lin, F Marlétaz, A Pérez-Posada… - PLoS …, 2024 - journals.plos.org
Deuterostomes are a monophyletic group of animals that includes Hemichordata,
Echinodermata (together called Ambulacraria), and Chordata. The diversity of deuterostome …

Transcriptome mining extends the host range of the Flaviviridae to non-bilaterians

JCO Mifsud, VA Costa, ME Petrone… - Virus …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
The flavivirids (family Flaviviridae) are a group of positive-sense RNA viruses that include
well-documented agents of human disease. Despite their importance and ubiquity, the …

[BOOK][B] Introduction to paleobiology and the fossil record

MJ Benton, DAT Harper - 2020 - books.google.com
This book presents a comprehensive overview of the science of the history of life.
Paleobiologists bring many analytical tools to bear in interpreting the fossil record and the …