In recent years, scientists have made remarkable progress reconstructing the animal
phylogeny. There is broad agreement regarding many deep animal relationships, including …

Metazoa comprises 35–40 phyla that include some 1.3 million described species.
Phylogenetic analyses of metazoan interrelationships have progressed in the past two …

We present a consensus classification of life to embrace the more than 1.6 million species
already provided by more than 3,000 taxonomists' expert opinions in a unified and coherent …

Despite rapid advances in the study of metazoan evolutionary history [1], phylogenomic
analyses have so far neglected a number of microscopic lineages that possess a unique …

This comprehensive, authoritative and up-to-date work provides the definitive overview of
marine parasites worldwide. It is an invaluable reference for students and researchers in …

▪ Abstract Molecular tools have profoundly rearranged our understanding of metazoan
phylogeny. Initially based on the nuclear small ribosomal subunit (SSU or 18S) gene, recent …

This work expands on a study from 2004 by Mallatt, Garey, and Shultz [Mallatt, JM, Garey,
JR, Shultz, JW, 2004. Ecdysozoan phylogeny and Bayesian inference: first use of nearly …

Aim The development of metacommunity theory inspired a series of studies exploring the
importance of environmental and spatial effects on the composition of biotic assemblages …

The advent of numerical methods for analysing phylogenetic relationships, along with the
study of morphology and molecular data, has driven our understanding of animal …

Phylogenetic relationships among Syndermata have been extensively debated, mainly
because the sister-group of the Acanthocephala has not yet been clearly identified from …