An international team of scientists including Albert Poustka from the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics in Berlin has discovered that Xenoturbellida and the acoelomorph worms, both ...

The simple worms, Xenoturbellida and the acoelomorph, were thought to have evolved in linear fashion but by poring over their genome with intensive mathematical models, the researchers have found ...

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 ...

Acoelomorph flatworm monophyly is a long-branch attraction artefact obscuring a clade of Acoela and Xenoturbellida. Journal: Proceedings of the Royal Society B Published: 2024-09-01 ...