The phylum Cnidaria: a review of phylogenetic patterns and diversity 300 years after Linnaeus

CS McFadden, M Daly, MR Brugler, P Cartwright… - 2007 - scholarship.claremont.edu
Systema Naturae includes representatives of every major lineage of the animal phylum
Cnidaria. However, Linnaeus did not classify the members of the phylum as is now done …

The origin of animals: can molecular clocks and the fossil record be reconciled?

JA Cunningham, AG Liu, S Bengtson… - …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The evolutionary emergence of animals is one of the most significant episodes in the history
of life, but its timing remains poorly constrained. Molecular clocks estimate that animals …

Phylogenomics provides a robust topology of the major cnidarian lineages and insights on the origins of key organismal traits

E Kayal, B Bentlage, M Sabrina Pankey… - BMC evolutionary …, 2018 - Springer
Abstract Background The phylogeny of Cnidaria has been a source of debate for decades,
during which nearly all-possible relationships among the major lineages have been …

Phylogenomic analyses support traditional relationships within Cnidaria

F Zapata, FE Goetz, SA Smith, M Howison, S Siebert… - PloS one, 2015 - journals.plos.org
Cnidaria, the sister group to Bilateria, is a highly diverse group of animals in terms of
morphology, lifecycles, ecology, and development. How this diversity originated and evolved …

Cnidarian phylogenetic relationships as revealed by mitogenomics

E Kayal, B Roure, H Philippe, AG Collins… - BMC evolutionary …, 2013 - Springer
Background Cnidaria (corals, sea anemones, hydroids, jellyfish) is a phylum of relatively
simple aquatic animals characterized by the presence of the cnidocyst: a cell containing a …

Medusozoan phylogeny and character evolution clarified by new large and small subunit rDNA data and an assessment of the utility of phylogenetic mixture models

AG Collins, P Schuchert, AC Marques… - Systematic …, 2006 - academic.oup.com
A newly compiled data set of nearly complete sequences of the large subunit of the nuclear
ribosome (LSU or 28S) sampled from 31 diverse medusozoans greatly clarifies the …

Exceptionally preserved jellyfishes from the Middle Cambrian

P Cartwright, SL Halgedahl, JR Hendricks, RD Jarrard… - PloS one, 2007 - journals.plos.org
Cnidarians represent an early diverging animal group and thus insight into their origin and
diversification is key to understanding metazoan evolution. Further, cnidarian jellyfish …

Origin and early diversification of the phylum C nidaria V errill: major developments in the analysis of the taxon's P roterozoic–C ambrian history

H Van Iten, AC Marques, JDM Leme… - …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Diploblastic eumetazoans of the phylum C nidaria originated during the N eoproterozoic E
ra, possibly during the C ryogenian Period. The oldest known fossil cnidarians occur in …

[KİTAP][B] Phylonyms: a companion to the PhyloCode

K de Queiroz, P Cantino, J Gauthier - 2020 - taylorfrancis.com
Phylonyms is an implementation of PhyloCode, which is a set of principles, rules, and
recommendations governing phylogenetic nomenclature. Nearly 300 clades-lineages of …

A macroscopic free-swimming medusa from the middle Cambrian Burgess Shale

J Moon, JB Caron, J Moysiuk - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Cnidarians are regarded as one of the earliest-diverging animal phyla. One of the hallmarks
of the cnidarian body plan is the evolution of a free-swimming medusa in some medusozoan …