The mystery of chordate origins has endured for more than 150 years. Shortly after Darwin's On the Origin of Species, acorn worms were discovered to have chordate-like pharyngeal gill slits 1,2 and to ...
A study on the development of priapulids or ‘penis’ worms throws doubt on a feature that has been thought for more than 100 years to define the largest branch of the animal tree of life. Members of ...
How humans evolved from the very first animals over the last 600 million years is an endlessly fascinating question. When piecing together the many steps leading from our first simple animal ancestor ...
How humans evolved from the very first animals over the last 600 million years is an endlessly fascinating question. When piecing together the many steps leading from our first simple animal ancestor ...
Figure 1: Phylogenetic analyses of 170 nuclear proteins and 13 mitochondrial proteins support a monophyletic chordate clade and an independent deuterostome phylum of Xenoturbellida. We note that ...
Max Telford receives funding from the BBSRC, The Leverhulme Trust, the European Union Horizon 2020. He is affiliated with the Linnean Society. Paschalia Kapli receives funding from BBSRC. How humans ...