The sister taxon to all remaining animals…
Comb jellies are fascinating critters that are complex, have a weird nervous system and are capable for extreme regeneration.
Our publications with Mnemiopsis leidyi:
de Mendoza A, Hatleberg WL, Pang K, Leininger S, Bogdanovic O, Pflueger J, Buckberry S, Technau U, Hejnol A, Adamska M, Degnan BM, Degnan SM, Lister R (2019) Convergent evolution of a vertebrate-like methylome in a marine sponge Nat Ecol Evol 3(10):1464-1473 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-019-0983-2
Sebé-Pedrós A, Chomsky E, Pang K, Lara-Astiaso D, Gaiti F, Mukamel Z, Amit I, Hejnol A, Degnan B, Tanay A (2018) Early metazoan cell type diversity and the evolution of multicellular gene regulation Nat Ecol Evol 2, 1176–1188 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-018-0575-6
Hejnol A, Obst M, Stamatakis A, Ott M, Rouse GW, Edgecombe GD, Martínez P, Baguñà J, Bailly X, Jondelius U, Wiens M, Müller WEG, Martindale MQ, Giribet G, Dunn CW (2009) Assessing the root of bilaterian animals with scalable phylogenomic methods. Proc R Soc B 276, 4261-4270 https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2009.0896