Benthozoa
| Benthozoa | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| (unranked): | Benthozoa A. Erives and B. Fritzsch, 2019 |
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Myriazoa | |
The Benthozoa or Myriazoa[1] are a proposed basal animal clade consisting of the Porifera and ParaHoxozoa as a sister group of Ctenophora.[2]
An alternative phylogeny is given by the Porifera-sister hypothesis in which Porifera are the first diverging animal group.
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| 950 mya |
References
- ^ Schultz, Darrin T.; Haddock, Steven H.D.; Bredeson, Jessen V.; Green, Richard E.; Simakov, Oleg; Rokhsar, Daniel S. (17 May 2023). "Ancient gene linkages support ctenophores as sister to other animals". Nature. 618 (7963): 110–117. Bibcode:2023Natur.618..110S. doi:10.1038/s41586-023-05936-6. ISSN 0028-0836. PMC 10232365. PMID 37198475.
- ^ Erives, Albert; Fritzsch, Bernd (2020). "A Screen for Gene Paralogies Delineating Evolutionary Branching Order of Early Metazoa". G3 Genes|Genomes|Genetics. 10 (2): 811–826. bioRxiv 10.1101/704551. doi:10.1534/g3.119.400951. PMC 7003098. PMID 31879283.