Animals have moved from water to land many times, but whether they used the same genetic routes has remained unclear. This study shows that independent land transitions relied mostly on ancient, conse...

Gastrotricha are microscopic acoelomate worms that play key ecological roles in marine and freshwater meiobenthic communities. For a long time, their …

Abstract. Within the last 800 million years animals evolved a vast range of diversity of species exhibiting an enormous disparity of forms and lifestyles.

Species tree inference is often assumed to be more accurate as datasets increase in size, with whole genomes representing the best-case-scenario for e…

The molecular basis of sex determination (SD), while being extensively studied in model organisms, remains poorly understood in many animal groups. Bivalves, a diverse class of molluscs with a variety...