Never ending analysis of a century old evolutionary debate: unringing the urmetazoon bell

Our understanding of the early evolution of animals will be greatly improved if a final solution can be found to the evolutionary relationships between Porifera, Placozoa, Ctenophora, Cnidaria and Bilateria. There have been many recent attempts to solve this key issue at the base of the metazoan tre...

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Main Authors: Bernd eSchierwater, Peter W H Holland, David John Miller, Peter F Stadler, Brian M. Wiegmann, Gert eWörheide, Gregory A. Wray, Rob eDeSalle
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2016-02-01
Series:Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fevo.2016.00005/full