A reshuffling of the animal kingdom may be necessary in light of new genetic findings -- not to lions, tigers or bears, but worms, a recent study suggests.

Xenacoelomorpha – a new phylum in the animal kingdom. Scientists reorganise the animal phylogenetic tree. February 15, 2011. An international team of scientists including Albert Poustka from the Max ...

Scientists reorganise the animal phylogenetic tree. 18 Feb 2011. 1 ...

Within the animal kingdom, ... A team of conservation biologists categorized emojis related to nature and animals and mapped them onto the phylogenetic tree of life.

The debate began in 2008, when a family-tree study pointed not to sponges — long identified as the "earliest animal" — but to comb jellies as the earliest members of the animal kingdom.

A phylogenetic tree of nematodes based on about 1200 full-length small subunit ribosomal DNA sequences. Nematology , 2009; 11 (6): 927 DOI: 10.1163/156854109X456862 Cite This Page : ...