In recent years, scientists have made remarkable progress reconstructing the animal
phylogeny. There is broad agreement regarding many deep animal relationships, including the …

… 1), are well supported in phylogenomic analyses with broad taxon sampling (Dunn et al. …
In order to overcome these limitations of prior animal EST studies, Dunn et al. (2008) generated …

Animal evolution is often presented as a march toward complexity, with different living
animal groups each representing grades of organization that arose through the progressive …

Long-held ideas regarding the evolutionary relationships among animals have recently been
upended by sometimes controversial hypotheses based largely on insights from molecular …

Objective Alcoholism is the leading risk factor for injury. The authors hypothesized that
providing brief alcohol interventions as a routine component of trauma care would significantly …

A clear picture of animal relationships is a prerequisite to understand how the morphological
and ecological diversity of animals evolved over time. Among others, the placement of the …

Introduction An understanding of ctenophore biology is critical for reconstructing events that
occurred early in animal evolution. The phylogenetic relationship of ctenophores (comb …

Phyutility provides a set of phyloinformatics tools for summarizing and manipulating phylogenetic
trees, manipulating molecular data and retrieving data from NCBI. Its simple command-…

… Casey Dunn and colleagues have managed to recover information from the crucial but
hard-to-get-at Monoplacophora, a primitive group of deep-sea molluscs, revealing a shared …

Phylogenetic trees and data are often stored in incompatible and inconsistent formats. The
outputs of software tools that contain trees with analysis findings are often not compatible with …