Benthozoa
The Benthozoa or Myriazoa[1] are a proposed basal animal clade consisting of the Porifera and Parahoxozoa as sister of the Ctenophora.[2] An alternative phylogeny is given by the Porifera-sister hypothesis in which Porifera are the first diverging animal group.
| Choanozoa |
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| 950 mya |
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Clade: | Benthozoa A. Erives and B. Fritzsch, 2019 |
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Porifera | |
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Myriazoa | |
References
- Schultz, Darrin T.; Haddock, Steven H. D.; Bredeson, Jessen V.; Green, Richard E.; Simakov, Oleg; Rokhsar, Daniel S. (2023-05-17). "Ancient gene linkages support ctenophores as sister to other animals". Nature. doi:10.1038/s41586-023-05936-6. ISSN 0028-0836. PMC 10232365.
- Erives, Albert; Fritzsch, Bernd (2019-07-17). "A screen for gene paralogies delineating evolutionary branching order of early Metazoa". bioRxiv: 704551. doi:10.1101/704551.
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