Key Transitions in Animal Evolution

Day: Friday, Jan. 5, 8:00 am-Noon
Room: 104AB

Organizer(s): Bernd Schierwater, Stephen Dellaporta & R. DeSalle

Symposium	Author(s)	Title
S5	BOERO, Ferdinando*; SCHIERWATER, Bernd; PIRAINO, Stefano	Cnidarian milestones in metazoan evolution
S5	LIU, Yu; STEENKAMP, Emma; DARMON, Daniel; BURGER, Gertraud; LANG, B. Franz*	The evolutionary transition from protists to Metazoa: mitochondrial genome organization and phylogenomic analyses based on nuclear and mitochondrial genes.
S5	JACOBS, David K.*; NICHOLS , Scott; HARTENSTEIN, Volker; NAKANISHI, Nagayasu; YUAN, David	Origins of Sensory and Neural Organization in Basal Metazoa
S5	WAGNER, G. P. *; CROW, K. ; LYNCH, V.	Do Genome Duplications Play a Role in Key Transitions?
S5	BLACKSTONE, N.W.	Redox signaling and the transition from basal metazoans to bilaterians
S5	COLLINS, Allen/G*; CARTWRIGHT, Paulyn	Rocks and Clocks: Integrating Fossils and Molecules to Date Transitions in Early Animal Evolution
S5	MARTINDALE, Mark Q.	The developmental basis of body plan organization in the Eumetazoa
S5	MILLER, David J*; DE JONG, Danielle M; SCHIERWATER, Bernd; HAYWARD, David C; BALL, Eldon E	Implications of cnidarian gene expression data for the origins of bilaterality � is the glass half full or half empty?
S5	AKAM, M*; BRENA, C; CHIPMAN, A.C; ERIKSSON, J; PEEL, A	The Origin(s) of Segmentation in Animals
S5	HOLLAND, P.W.H.*; JIMENEZ-GURI, E.; PHILIPPE, H.; OKAMURA, B.; REINHARDT, R.; YOUNGER , R.; FURLONG, R.F.	More than one way to make a worm
S5	SCHIERWATER, Bernd*; DESALLE, Rob; JAKOB, Wolfgang; SCHROTH, Werner; HADRYS, Heike; DELLAPORTA, Stephen	Total Evidence Analysis Identifies Placozoa as Basal to Extant Metazoa