Deuterostome phylogeny reveals monophyletic chordates and the new phylum Xenoturbellida

Sarah J. Bourlat, Thorhildur Juliusdottir, Christopher J. Lowe, Robert Freeman, Jochanan Aronowicz, Mark Kirschner, Eric S. Lander, Michael Thorndyke, Hiroaki Nakano, Andrea B. Kohn, Andreas Heyland, Leonid L. Moroz, Richard R. Copley and Maximilian J. Telford ()
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Sarah J. Bourlat: University College London
Thorhildur Juliusdottir: Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics
Christopher J. Lowe: University of Chicago
Robert Freeman: Harvard Medical School
Jochanan Aronowicz: University of Chicago
Mark Kirschner: University of California, Berkeley
Eric S. Lander: Harvard Medical School
Michael Thorndyke: Kristineberg Marine Research Station
Hiroaki Nakano: Kristineberg Marine Research Station
Andrea B. Kohn: University of Florida
Andreas Heyland: University of Florida
Leonid L. Moroz: University of Florida
Richard R. Copley: Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics
Maximilian J. Telford: University College London

Nature, 2006, vol. 444, issue 7115, 85-88

Abstract: Spinal tip The profusion of genomic data has allowed biologists to resolve one of the longest standing and most contentious issues in zoology — the relationship between vertebrates and other animals. Several seemingly unusual schemes have been put forward recently, but now Bourlat et al. resolve these in a new study that affirms that the chordates form a single phylum, and finds an evolutionary home for Xenoturbella, a mysterious worm-like creature, among our near-relatives in the invertebrates.

Date: 2006
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