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A Screen for Gene Paralogies Delineating Evolutionary Branching Order of Early Metazoa.
G3 (Bethesda, Md.) - 6 Feb 2020
Erives Albert, Fritzsch Bernd
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The evolutionary diversification of animals is one of Earth's greatest marvels, yet its earliest steps are shrouded in mystery. Animals, the monophyletic clade known as Metazoa, evolved wildly divergent multicellular life strategies featuring ciliated sensory epithelia. In many lineages epithelial sensoria became coupled to increasingly complex nervous systems. Currently, different phylogenetic analyses of...
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