Phylogenomics resolves the evolutionary chronicle of our squirting closest relatives

A recent paper in BMC Biology has resolved the family relationships of sea squirts, one of our closest invertebrate relatives, by using a large phylogenomic data set derived from available genomes and newly generated transcriptomes. The work confirms previous ideas that ascidians (the sea squirts) a...

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Autor principal: Giribet, Gonzalo
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5924484/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29703197
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12915-018-0517-4
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description A recent paper in BMC Biology has resolved the family relationships of sea squirts, one of our closest invertebrate relatives, by using a large phylogenomic data set derived from available genomes and newly generated transcriptomes. The work confirms previous ideas that ascidians (the sea squirts) are not monophyletic, as they include some pelagic jelly-like relatives, and proposes a chronogram for a group that has been difficult to resolve due to their accelerated genome evolution. See research article: https://bmcbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12915-018-0499-2
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spelling pubmed-59244842018-05-01 Phylogenomics resolves the evolutionary chronicle of our squirting closest relatives Giribet, Gonzalo BMC Biol Commentary A recent paper in BMC Biology has resolved the family relationships of sea squirts, one of our closest invertebrate relatives, by using a large phylogenomic data set derived from available genomes and newly generated transcriptomes. The work confirms previous ideas that ascidians (the sea squirts) are not monophyletic, as they include some pelagic jelly-like relatives, and proposes a chronogram for a group that has been difficult to resolve due to their accelerated genome evolution. See research article: https://bmcbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12915-018-0499-2 BioMed Central 2018-04-27 /pmc/articles/PMC5924484/ /pubmed/29703197 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12915-018-0517-4 Text en © Giribet et al. 2018 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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Phylogenomics resolves the evolutionary chronicle of our squirting closest relatives
title Phylogenomics resolves the evolutionary chronicle of our squirting closest relatives
title_full Phylogenomics resolves the evolutionary chronicle of our squirting closest relatives
title_fullStr Phylogenomics resolves the evolutionary chronicle of our squirting closest relatives
title_full_unstemmed Phylogenomics resolves the evolutionary chronicle of our squirting closest relatives
title_short Phylogenomics resolves the evolutionary chronicle of our squirting closest relatives
title_sort phylogenomics resolves the evolutionary chronicle of our squirting closest relatives
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5924484/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29703197
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