The New Animal Phylogeny: Reliability and Implications

Overview

Journal Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A

Specialty Science

Date 2000 Apr 26

PMID 10781043

Citations 98

Authors

A Adoutte

G Balavoine

N Lartillot

O Lespinet

B PRUDHOMME

R De Rosa

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Abstract

DNA sequence analysis dictates new interpretation of phylogenic trees. Taxa that were once thought to represent successive grades of complexity at the base of the metazoan tree are being displaced to much higher positions inside the tree. This leaves no evolutionary "intermediates" and forces us to rethink the genesis of bilaterian complexity.

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