Gonzalo Giribet

2008/4/27

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London B: Biological Sciences

363

1496

1513-1522

The Royal Society

Abstract The advent of numerical methods for analysing phylogenetic relationships, along
with the study of morphology and molecular data, has driven our understanding of animal
relationships for the past three decades. Within the protostome branch of the animal tree of
life, these data have sufficed to establish its two main side branches, the moulting
Ecdysozoa and the non-moulting Lophotrochozoa. In this review, I explore our current
knowledge of protostome relationships and discuss progress and future perspectives and ...