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Nature 434, 1076-1077 (28 April 2005) | doi:10.1038/4341076a; Published online 27 April 2005
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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.
- Martin Jones and Mark Blaxter are at the Institute of Evolutionary Biology, School of Biological Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Ashworth Laboratories, King's Buildings, Edinburgh EH9 3JT, UK.
Email: mark.blaxter@ed.ac.uk
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