Felipe Zapata, Freya E Goetz, Stephen A Smith, Mark Howison, Stefan Siebert, Samuel H Church, Steven M Sanders, Cheryl Lewis Ames, Catherine S McFadden, Scott C France, Marymegan Daly, Allen G Collins, Steven HD Haddock, Casey W Dunn, Paulyn Cartwright

2015/10/14

PLoS One

10

10

e0139068

Public Library of Science

Abstract Cnidaria, the sister group to Bilateria, is a highly diverse group of animals in terms
of morphology, lifecycles, ecology, and development. How this diversity originated and
evolved is not well understood because phylogenetic relationships among major cnidarian
lineages are unclear, and recent studies present contrasting phylogenetic hypotheses. Here,
we use transcriptome data from 15 newly-sequenced species in combination with 26
publicly available genomes and transcriptomes to assess phylogenetic relationships ...