Nathan Whelan (@nathan-whelan.bsky.social)

I posted an eLetter to the recent Science paper claiming strong evidence for sponges as the sister group to all other animals. The eLetter can be found under the original article. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Integrative phylogenomics positions sponges at the root of the animal tree Determining whether sponges or ctenophores root the animal tree has important implications for understanding early animal evolution. Here, we examined support for these competing hypotheses by constru... https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adw9456