Gregory D Edgecombe, Gonzalo Giribet, Casey W Dunn, Andreas Hejnol, Reinhardt M Kristensen, Ricardo C Neves, Greg W Rouse, Katrine Worsaae, Martin V Sørensen

2011/6/1

Organisms Diversity & Evolution

11

2

151-172

Springer-Verlag

Abstract Metazoa comprises 35–40 phyla that include some 1.3 million described species.
Phylogenetic analyses of metazoan interrelationships have progressed in the past two
decades from those based on morphology and/or targeted-gene approaches using single
and then multiple loci to the more recent phylogenomic approaches that use hundreds or
thousands of genes from genome and transcriptome sequencing projects. A stable core of
the tree for bilaterian animals is now at hand, and instability and conflict are becoming ...