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Nature 434, 1076-1077 (28 April 2005) | doi:10.1038/4341076a; Published online 27 April 2005
Evolutionary biology: Animal roots and shoots
Abstract
DNA sequence data from neglected animal groups support a controversial hypothesis of deep evolutionary history. Inferring that history using only whole-genome sequences can evidently be misleading.
Despite the comforting certainty of textbooks and 150 years of argument, the true relationships of the major groups (phyla) of animals remain contentious. In the late 1990s, a series of controversial papers used molecular evidence to propose a radical rearrangement of animal phyla1, 2, 3.
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