A Large and Consistent Phylogenomic Dataset Supports Sponges as the Sister Group to All Other Animals

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Molecular Geo- & Palaeobiology Lab, 31 Jan 2019

New paper out: «The role of homology and orthology in the phylogenomic analysis of metazoan gene content» An independent…

Institute of Zoology NAS of Ukraine, 02 Nov 2017

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Ecomar Consultoria Ambiental, 17 Mar 2017

De nuevo esponjas grupo hermano del resto de animales! http://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(17)30199-9

Colecionadores de Ossos, 17 Mar 2017

Simion et al. demonstrate that sponges (Porifera) are the earliest branching animal lineage, using a combination of 1,719 genes…

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