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Volume 363(1496);  April 27, 2008
Introduction. A Linnean tercentenary celebration
The evolution of the animals: introduction to a Linnean tercentenary celebration
Maximilian J Telford and D. Timothy J Littlewood
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. 2008 April 27; 363(1496): 1421–1424. Published online 2008 January 11. doi: 10.1098/rstb.2007.2231.
PMCID: PMC2394567
Research Articles
The earliest fossil record of the animals and its significance
Graham E Budd
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. 2008 April 27; 363(1496): 1425–1434. Published online 2008 January 11. doi: 10.1098/rstb.2007.2232.
PMCID: PMC2614223
The Ediacaran emergence of bilaterians: congruence between the genetic and the geological fossil records
Kevin J Peterson, James A Cotton, James G Gehling, and Davide Pisani
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. 2008 April 27; 363(1496): 1435–1443. Published online 2008 January 11. doi: 10.1098/rstb.2007.2233.
PMCID: PMC2614224
Beyond linear sequence comparisons: the use of genome-level characters for phylogenetic reconstruction
Jeffrey L Boore and Susan I Fuerstenberg
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. 2008 April 27; 363(1496): 1445–1451. Published online 2008 January 11. doi: 10.1098/rstb.2007.2234.
PMCID: PMC2614225
The animal in the genome: comparative genomics and evolution
Richard R Copley
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. 2008 April 27; 363(1496): 1453–1461. Published online 2008 January 11. doi: 10.1098/rstb.2007.2235.
PMCID: PMC2614226
Improvement of molecular phylogenetic inference and the phylogeny of Bilateria
Nicolas Lartillot and Hervé Philippe
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. 2008 April 27; 363(1496): 1463–1472. Published online 2008 January 11. doi: 10.1098/rstb.2007.2236.
PMCID: PMC2615818
Origins of the other metazoan body plans: the evolution of larval forms
Rudolf A Raff
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. 2008 April 27; 363(1496): 1473–1479. Published online 2008 January 11. doi: 10.1098/rstb.2007.2237.
PMCID: PMC2614227
Back in time: a new systematic proposal for the Bilateria
Jaume Baguñà, Pere Martinez, Jordi Paps, and Marta Riutort
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. 2008 April 27; 363(1496): 1481–1491. Published online 2008 January 11. doi: 10.1098/rstb.2007.2238.
PMCID: PMC2615819
Acoel development supports a simple planula-like urbilaterian
Andreas Hejnol and Mark Q Martindale
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. 2008 April 27; 363(1496): 1493–1501. Published online 2008 January 11. doi: 10.1098/rstb.2007.2239.
PMCID: PMC2614228
Problematica old and new
Ronald A Jenner and D.Timothy J Littlewood
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. 2008 April 27; 363(1496): 1503–1512. Published online 2008 January 11. doi: 10.1098/rstb.2007.2240.
PMCID: PMC2614229
Assembling the lophotrochozoan (=spiralian) tree of life
Gonzalo Giribet
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. 2008 April 27; 363(1496): 1513–1522. Published online 2008 January 11. doi: 10.1098/rstb.2007.2241.
PMCID: PMC2614230
The evolution of nervous system centralization
Detlev Arendt, Alexandru S Denes, Gáspár Jékely, and Kristin Tessmar-Raible
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. 2008 April 27; 363(1496): 1523–1528. Published online 2008 January 11. doi: 10.1098/rstb.2007.2242.
PMCID: PMC2614231
The evolution of the Ecdysozoa
Maximilian J Telford, Sarah J Bourlat, Andrew Economou, Daniel Papillon, and Omar Rota-Stabelli
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. 2008 April 27; 363(1496): 1529–1537. Published online 2008 January 11. doi: 10.1098/rstb.2007.2243.
PMCID: PMC2614232
The evolution of developmental gene networks: lessons from comparative studies on holometabolous insects
Andrew D Peel
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. 2008 April 27; 363(1496): 1539–1547. Published online 2008 January 11. doi: 10.1098/rstb.2007.2244.
PMCID: PMC2615820
Conserved developmental processes and the formation of evolutionary novelties: examples from butterfly wings
Suzanne V Saenko, Vernon French, Paul M Brakefield, and Patrícia Beldade
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. 2008 April 27; 363(1496): 1549–1556. Published online 2008 January 11. doi: 10.1098/rstb.2007.2245.
PMCID: PMC2615821
Deciphering deuterostome phylogeny: molecular, morphological and palaeontological perspectives
Billie J Swalla and Andrew B Smith
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. 2008 April 27; 363(1496): 1557–1568. Published online 2008 January 11. doi: 10.1098/rstb.2007.2246.
PMCID: PMC2615822
Molecular genetic insights into deuterostome evolution from the direct-developing hemichordate Saccoglossus kowalevskii
Christopher J Lowe
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. 2008 April 27; 363(1496): 1569–1578. Published online 2008 January 11. doi: 10.1098/rstb.2007.2247.
PMCID: PMC2615823
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