Phylogenomics: Is less more when using large-scale datasets?

Davide Pisani; Maria Eleonora Rossi; Ferdinand Marlétaz; Roberto Feuda

doi:10.1016/j.cub.2022.11.019

Phylogenomics: Is less more when using large-scale datasets?

Curr Biol. 2022 Dec 19;32(24):R1340-R1342. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2022.11.019.

Authors

Davide Pisani¹, Maria Eleonora Rossi², Ferdinand Marlétaz³, Roberto Feuda⁴

Affiliations

¹ Palaeobiology Research Group, School of Biological Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK; Palaeobiology Research Group, School of Earth Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK. Electronic address: Davide.pisani@bristol.ac.uk.
² Palaeobiology Research Group, School of Earth Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK.
³ Centre for Life's Origin & Evolution, Department of Genetics, Evolution & Environment, University College London, London, UK.
⁴ Department of Genetics and Genome Biology, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK.

PMID: 36538883
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2022.11.019

Abstract

Phylogenetic studies have traditionally placed the simple Xenoacoelomorph worms as the sister group of all other animals with bilateral body symmetry. A new study shows that misidentification of orthologous genes might have been the source of at least some support for this placement.

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MeSH terms

Animals
Invertebrates* / genetics
Phylogeny*