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 …

The almost simultaneous emergence of major animal phyla during the early Cambrian
shaped modern animal biodiversity. Reconstructing evolutionary relationships among such …

Sea urchins are emblematic models in developmental biology and display several
characteristics that set them apart from other deuterostomes. To uncover the genomic cues …

The popularity of relaxed clock Bayesian inference of clade origin timings has generated
several recent publications with focal results considerably older than the fossils of the clades …

For much of terrestrial biodiversity, the evolutionary pathways of adaptation from marine
ancestors are poorly understood and have usually been viewed as a binary trait. True crabs …

Abstract Changes in developmental gene regulatory networks (dGRNs) underlie much of the
diversity of life, but the evolutionary mechanisms that operate on regulatory interactions …

Simple Summary All life is derived from a single common ancestor, whose descendants
coevolved with the planet, sha** the structure of biodiversity and the physical processes …

While some relationships in phylogenomic studies have remained stable since the Sanger
sequencing era, many challenging nodes remain, even with genome-scale data …

Species within nearly all extant animal lineages are capable of regenerating body parts.
However, it remains unclear whether the gene expression programme controlling …

Sea cucumbers (Holothuroidea) are a diverse clade of echinoderms found from intertidal
waters to the bottom of the deepest oceanic trenches. Their reduced skeletons and limited …