Christopher E Laumer, Nicolas Bekkouche, Alexandra Kerbl, Freya Goetz, Ricardo C Neves, Martin V Sørensen, Reinhardt M Kristensen, Andreas Hejnol, Casey W Dunn, Gonzalo Giribet, Katrine Worsaae

2015/8/3

Current Biology

25

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2000-2006

Cell Press

Summary Despite rapid advances in the study of metazoan evolutionary history [1],
phylogenomic analyses have so far neglected a number of microscopic lineages that
possess a unique combination of characters and are thus informative for our understanding
of morphological evolution. Chief among these lineages are the recently described animal
groups Micrognathozoa and Loricifera, as well as the two interstitial “Problematica”
Diurodrilus and Lobatocerebrum [2]. These genera show a certain resemblance to ...