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Demosponge EST sequencing reveals a complex genetic toolkit of the simplest metazoans.
2010
Sponges (Porifera) are among the simplest living and the earliest branching metazoans. They hold a pivotal role for studying genome evolution of the entire metazoan branch, both as an outgroup to Eumetazoa and as the closest branching phylum to the common ancestor of all multicellular animals (Urmetazoa). In order to assess the transcription inventory of sponges, we sequenced expressed sequence tag libraries of two demosponge species, Suberites domuncula and Lubomirskia baicalensis, and systematically analyzed the assembled sponge transcripts against their homologs from complete proteomes of six well-characterized metazoans--Nematostella vectensis, Caenorhabditis elegans, Drosophila melanog…
Molecular Phylogeny of Eumetazoa: Genes in Sponges (Porifera) Give Evidence for Monophyly of Animals
1998
At present, the universal phylogenetic tree exhibits a tripartite division of the living world and includes Bacteria (“eubacterial”), Archaea (“archebacterial”), and Eucarya (“eukaryotic”) branches (Woese et al. 1991) with the Progenote as the common ancestor (Woese 1987). It is difficult to assess the timely appearance of the first living organism. Some first decipherable evidence of early life has apparently been identified in Swaziland (South Africa) and Pilbara Supergroup (Western Australia) sediments, and dates back 3550 to 3000 Ma (million years) ago; these are stromatolites (see Walter 1996), microfossils, and particulate organic matter (reviewed in Schopf 1994). Eucarya are roughly …