The gene complement of the ancestral bilaterian - was Urbilateria a monster?

Miller, David J; Ball, Eldon

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The gene complement of the ancestral bilaterian - was Urbilateria a monster?

Date

2009-11-19

Authors

Miller, David J

Ball, Eldon

Publisher

BioMed Central

Abstract

Expressed sequence tag analyses of the annelid Pomatoceros lamarckii, recently published in BMC Evolutionary Biology, are consistent with less extensive gene loss in the Lophotrochozoa than in the Ecdysozoa, but it would be premature to generalize about patterns of gene loss on the basis of the limited data available.