Resolving animal phylogeny: a sledgehammer for a tough nut?

Dev Cell. 2008 Apr;14(4):457-9. doi: 10.1016/j.devcel.2008.03.016.

Abstract

While great progress toward discovering the evolutionary relationships of major animal groups has been made in the past 2 decades, significant portions of the animal tree remain unresolved. A recent manuscript in Nature by Dunn and colleagues tackles this problem using massive sequence data sets from many taxa-the so-called "phylogenomic" approach.

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Databases, Nucleic Acid
  • Genome
  • Genomics
  • Molecular Sequence Data
  • Phylogeny*
  • Sequence Analysis, DNA*