Casey W Dunn, Andreas Hejnol, David Q Matus, Kevin Pang, William E Browne, Stephen A Smith, Elaine Seaver, Greg W Rouse, Matthias Obst, Gregory D Edgecombe, Martin V Sørensen, Steven HD Haddock, Andreas Schmidt-Rhaesa, Akiko Okusu, Reinhardt Møbjerg Kristensen, Ward C Wheeler, Mark Q Martindale, Gonzalo Giribet

2008/4/10

Nature

452

7188

745-749

Nature Publishing Group

Abstract Long-held ideas regarding the evolutionary relationships among animals have
recently been upended by sometimes controversial hypotheses based largely on insights
from molecular data 1, 2. These new hypotheses include a clade of moulting animals
(Ecdysozoa) 3 and the close relationship of the lophophorates to molluscs and annelids
(Lophotrochozoa) 4. Many relationships remain disputed, including those that are required
to polarize key features of character evolution, and support for deep nodes is often low. ...