Foreword v
Peter W. H. Holland
Acknowledgements vii
Contributors xi
Introduction xiii
Maximilian J. Telford and D. Timothy J. Littlewood
Part I: Origins of animals 1
1 The earliest fossil record of the animals and its significance 3
Graham E. Budd
2 The Ediacaran emergence of bilaterians: congruence
between the genetic and the geological fossil records 15
Kevin J. Peterson, James A. Cotton, James G. Gehling, and
Davide Pisani
3 Genomic, phylogenetic, and cell biological insights
into metazoan origins 24
Scott A. Nichols, Mark J. Dayel, and Nicole King
4 The mouth, the anus, and the blastopore—open questions
about questionable openings 33
Andreas Hejnol and Mark Q. Martindale
Part II: The Bilateria 41
5 Origins of metazoan body plans: the larval revolution 43
Rudolf A. Raff
6 Assembling the spiralian tree of life 52
Gonzalo Giribet, Casey W. Dunn, Gregory D. Edgecombe,
Andreas Hejnol, Mark Q. Martindale, and Greg W. Rouse
7 The evolution of nervous system centralization 65
Detlev Arendt, Alexandru S. Denes, Gáspár Jékely, and
Kristin Tessmar-Raible
8 The origins and evolution of the Ecdysozoa 71
Maximilian J. Telford, Sarah J. Bourlat, Andrew Economou,
Daniel Papillon, and Omar Rota-Stabelli
9 Deciphering deuterostome phylogeny: molecular,
morphological, and palaeontological perspectives 80
Andrew B. Smith and Billie J. Swalla
10 Molecular genetic insights into deuterostome evolution from
the direct-developing hemichordate Saccoglossus kowalevskii 93
Christopher J. Lowe
Part III: Themes and perspectives 105
11 Invertebrate Problematica: kinds, causes, and solutions 107
Ronald A. Jenner and D. Timothy J. Littlewood
12 Improvement of molecular phylogenetic inference and
the phylogeny of Bilateria 127
Nicolas Lartillot and Hervé Philippe
13 Beyond linear sequence comparisons: the use of
genome-level characters for phylogenetic reconstruction 139
Jeffrey L. Boore and Susan I. Fuerstenberg
14 The animal in the genome: comparative genomics and evolution 148
Richard R. Copley
15 MicroRNAs and metazoan phylogeny: big trees from little genes 157
Erik A. Sperling and Kevin J. Peterson
16 The evolution of developmental gene networks: lessons from
comparative studies on holometabolous insects 171
Andrew D. Peel
17 Conserved developmental processes and the evolution of novel
traits: wounds, embryos, veins, and butterfly eyespots 183
Patrícia Beldade and Suzanne V. Saenko
18 Reassembling animal evolution: a four-dimensional puzzle 191
Maximilian J. Telford and D. Timothy J. Littlewood
References 197
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