Invertebrate References

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A

Abe K & Y Watanabe (1992), Determination of silicate in seawater by inductively coupled plasma atomic emission spectrometry. J. Oceanog. 48: 283-292.
Demospongiae.

Abzhanov, A & TC Kaufman (2000), Crustacean (malacostracan) Hox genes and the evolution of the arthropod trunk.  Development 127: 2239-2249. 
Crustacea.

Adamkewicz, SL, MG Harasewych, J Blake, D Saudek & BCJ Bult (1997), A molecular phylogeny of the bivalve mollusks. Mol. Biol. Evol. 14: 619-629.
Bivalvia Dendrogram.

Aguinaldo, AMA, JM Turbeville, LS Linford, MC Rivera, JR Garey, RA Raff, & JA Lake (1997), Evidence for a clade of nematodes, arthropods and other moulding animals. Nature 387: 489-493.
Ecdysozoa, Spiralia,Protostomia.

Akam, M & M Averof (1995), Hox genes and the diversification of insect and crustacean body plans. Nature, 376: 420-423.
Myriapoda.

Aksarina, NA (1968) New Data on the Geology and Guide Fossils of Western Siberia, Vol. 3.  Univ. of Tomsk. 
Stenothecidae.

Aldridge, RJ, X-G Hou, DJ Siveter, DJ Siveter & SE Gabbott (2007), The systematics and phylogenetic relationships of vetulicolians. Palaeontology 50: 131-168. 
Hox Genes.

Álvaro JJ, O Elicki, F Debrenne & D Vizcaïno (2002), Small shelly fossils from the Lower Cambrian Lastours Formation, southern Montagne Noire, France. Geobios 35: 397–409.
Archaeocyatha. 

Álvaro JJ, O Elicki, G Geyer, AWA Rushton & JH Shergold (2003), Palaeogeographical controls on the Cambrian trilobite immigration and evolutionary patterns reported in the western Gondwana margin. Palaeogeog. Palaeoclimat. Palaeoecol. 195: 5-35.
Archaeocyatha. 

Amano S & I Hori (2001), Metamorphosis of coeloblastula performed by multipotential larval flagellated cells in the calcareous sponge Leucosolenia laxa. Biol. Bull. 200: 20-32.
Demospongiae,Glossary. 

Amores, A, A Force, Y-L Yan, L Joly, C Amemiya, A Fritz, RK Ho, J Langeland, V Prince, Y-L Wang, M Westerfield, M Ekker & JH Postlethwait (1998), Zebrafish hox clusters and vertebrate genome evolution. Science 282: 1711–1714.
Hox Genes 

Anderson, LI (1997), The xiphosuran Liomesaspis from the Montceau-les-Mines Konservat Lagerstatte, Massif Central, France. N. Jahrb. Geol. Palaontol., Abh. 204: 415-436.
Xiphosura.

Anderson, LI (1998), A new specimen of the Silurian synziphosurine Cyamocephalus. Proc. Geol. Assoc. 110: 211-216.
Xiphosura.

Anderson, LI & PA Selden (1997), Opisthosomal fusion and phylogeny of Palaeozoic Xiphosura. Lethaia 30: 19-31.  
Chasmataspida,Xiphosura.

Anderson, LI, JA Dunlop, & NH Trewin (2000), A Middle Devonian chasmataspid arthropod from Achanarras Quarry, Caithness, Scotland. Scot. J. Geol., 36: 151-158.  
Chasmataspida.

Andri E, S Gerbaudo, & M Testa (2001), Quaternary siliceous sponge spicules in the western Woodlark Basin, southwest Pacific (ODP Leg 180), in P Huchon, B Taylor & A Klaus (eds.), Proc. ODP, Sci. Results, 180: 1–8.
Sponge Spicules.

Aouacheria A, C Geourjon, N Aghajari, V Navratil, G Deléage, C Lethias, & J-Y Exposito (2006), Insights into early extracellular matrix evolution: Spongin short chain collagen-related proteins are homologous to basement membrane type IV collagens and form a novel family widely distributed in invertebrates. Mol. Biol. Evol. 23: 2288-2302.
Demospongiae,Homoscleromorpha.

Arenas-Mena, C, AR Cameron & EH Davidson (2000), Spatial expression of Hoxcluster genes in the ontogeny of a sea urchin. Development 127: 4631-4643.
Deuterostomia, Hox Genes.

Arendt, D, U Technau & J Wittbrodt (2001), Evolution of the bilaterian larval foregut. Nature 409: 81-85.
Bilateria

Arendt, D & J Wittbrodt (2001), Reconstructing the eyes of Urbilateria. Phil. Trans. Roy. Soc. B 356: 1545-1563.  
Bilateria, Hox Genes.

B

Bandel, K (1988), Repräsentieren die Euomphaloidea eine natürliche Einheit der Gastropoden? Mitteilungen Geol.-Paläontol. Inst. Univ. Hamburg, 67: 1–33.
Euomphalida.

Barnes, RD (1980), Invertebrate Zoology. Saunders. 
Basommatophora,Bivalvia, Gastropoda,Metazoa, Monoplacophora,Patellogastropoda, Polyplacophora,Pulmonata, Scaphopoda,Solenogastres,Stylommatophora, Systellommatophora.

Barthel D (1995), Tissue composition of sponges from the Weddell Sea, Antarctica: not much meat on the bones. Mar. Ecol. Progr. Ser. 123: 149-153. 
Demospongiae. 

Bavestrello G, U Benatti, B Calcinai, R Cattaneo-Vietti, C Cerrano, A Favre. M Giovine, S Lanza, R Pronzato & M Sara 1998), Body polarity and mineral selectivity in the demosponge Chondrosia reniformis. Biol. Bull. 195: 120-125.
Glossary, Porifera.

Bengström, J (1979), Morphology of fossil arthropods as a guide to phylogenetic relationships, in AP Gupta (ed.), Arthropod Phylogeny. Van Nostrand Reinhold, pp. 3-56.
Chasmataspida.

Bengström, J (1991), Metazoan evolution around the Precambrian-Cambrian transition, in AM Simonetta & S Conway Morris [eds.], The Early Evolution of Metazoa and the Significance of Problematic Taxa, Cambridge Univ. Press. pp.25-34.
Bilateria.

Bengtson S (2000), Teasing fossils out of shales with cameras and computers. Pal. Elect. 3: 4, 14 pp.
Porifera.

Bengtson, S & G Budd (2004), Comment on "Small bilaterian fossils from 40 to 55 million years before the Cambrian". Science 306: 1291b. 
Hox Genes.

Benton MJ & DAT Harper (1997), Basic Paleontology. Addison Wesley Longman, 342 pp.
Archaeocyatha, Demospongiae, Glossary, Irregulares,Stromatoporoidea. 

Bergquist PR & M Kelly (2004), Taxonomy of some Halisarcida and Homosclerophorida (Porifera: Demospongiae) from the Indo-Pacific. N.Z. J. Marine & Freshwater Res. 38: 51-66.
Homoscleromorpha.

Bergström, J (1989), The Origin of Animal Phyla and the New Phylum Procoelomata, Lethaia 22: 259-69.  
Caudofoveata.

Bieler, R (1992), Gastropod phylogeny and systematics. Ann. Rev. Ecol. & Syst., 23: 311-338.
Stylommatophora.

Blumenberg M (2003), Biomarker aus Kaltwasser- und Tiefsee-Kieselschwämmen: Phylogenie, Chemotaxonomie und Chemische Ökologie der Demospongiae und der Hexactinellida. Unpubl. Ph.D. Diss., Universität Hamburg. 120+ pp.
Homoscleromorpha,Tetractinomorpha. 

Bond D, PB Wignall & G Racki (2004), Extent and duration of marine anoxia during the Frasnian–Famennian (Late Devonian) mass extinction in Poland, Germany, Austria and France. Geol. Mag. 141: 173-193.
Stromatoporoidea. 

Boorman, CJ & SM Shimeld 2002), The evolution of left-right asymmetry in chordates. BioEssays 24: 1004-1011.
Deuterostomia.

Botting JP & NJ Butterfield (2005), Reconstructing early sponge relationships by using the Burgess Shale fossil Eiffelia globosa, Walcott. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. (USA) 102: 1554–1559.
Demospongiae, Hexactinellida, Porifera,Porifera Dendrogram.

Bottjer DJ, JW Hagadorn & SQ Dornbos (2000), The Cambrian substrate revolution. GSA Today 9: 2-6. 
Archaeocyatha. 

Boury-Esnault N & AM Solé-Cava (2004), Recent contribution of genetics to the study of sponge systematics and biology. Boll. Mus. Ist. Biol. Univ. Genova, 68: 3-18.
Tetractinomorpha. 

Boute N, J-Y Exposito, N Boury-Esnault, J Vacelet, N Noro, K Miyazaki, K Yoshizato& R Garrone (1996), Type IV collagen in sponges, the missing link in basement membrane ubiquity. Biol. Cell. 88: 37-44.
Demospongiae, Glossary, Homoscleromorpha, Porifera. 

Brasier, WD (1989), Towards a biostratigraphy of the earliest skeletal biotas, in JW Cowie & MD Brasier [eds.] The Precambrian-Cambrian Boundary, Clarendon Press.  
Pelagiellida.

Brasier, WD (1989a), Sections in England and their Correlation, in JW Cowie & MD Brasier [ eds.] The Precambrian-Cambrian Boundary, Clarendon Press. 
Helcionellidae.

Briggs, DEG, BS Lieberman, SL Halgedahl & RD Jarrard (2005), A new metazoan from the Middle Cambrian of Utah and the nature of Vetulicolia. Palaeontology 48: 681-686.
Vetulicolia.

Brooke, NM & PWH Holland (2003), The evolution of multicellularity and early animal genomes. Curr. Op. Genet. Devel.  13: 599-603.
Bilateria, Hox Genes.

Brunschwig, K, C Wittmann, R Schnabel, TR Bürglin, H Tobler & F Müller (1999), Anterior organization of the Caenorhabditis elegans embryo by the labial-like Hox gene ceh-13. Development 126: 1537-1546.
Hox Genes.

Budd GE (2003), The Cambrian fossil record and the origin of phyla. Integr. Comp. Biol. 43: 157-165.
Irregulares.

C

Callaerts, P, PN Lee, B Hartmann, C Farfan, DWY Choy, K Ikeo, K-F Fischbach, WJ Gehring & HG de Couet (2002), Hox genes in the sepiolid squid Euprymna scolopes: Implications for the evolution of complex body plans. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. (USA) 99: 2088-2093.
Hox Genes.

Cameron, CB (2005), A phylogeny of the hemichordates based on morphological characters. Can. J. Zool. 83: 196–215.
Deuterostomia.

Cameron, CB, JR Garey & BJ Swalla (2000), Evolution of the chordate body plan: New insights from phylogenetic analyses of deuterostome phyla. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. (USA) 97: 4469-4474.
Deuterostomia.

Campbell, KSW (1987), Evolution evolving. J. & Proc. Roy. Soc. NSW 120: 9-19. WWW.
Ctenocystoidea. 

Cao R-J (1999), Evidence for possible metazoan activity in Neoproterozoic aberrant stromatolites and thrombolite structures. Acta Pal. Sin. 38: ??-??.
Irregulares.

Carroll, SB (2005), Endless Forms Most Beautiful: The New Science of Evo Devo and the Making of the Animal Kingdom. Norton, 350+pp.
Hox Genes.

Carroll, SB (2005a), Evolution at two levels: On genes and form.  PLOS Biology 3: 1159-1166. 
Hox Genes.

Caster, KE (1967), Homoiostelea, in RC Moore [ed.] Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology Part S: Echinodermata 1. Geol. Soc. Amer. 2: S581-S623.
Soluta.

Caster, KE & HK Brooks (1956), New fossils from the Canadian-Chazyan (Ordovician) hiatus in Tennessee. Bull. Am. Paleontol. 36:157-199.
Chasmataspida.

Cavalier-Smith, T (1998), A revised six-kingdom system of life. Biol. Rev. 73: 203-266. pdf
Classification, Platyzoa

Cavalier-Smith T & EE-Y Chao (2003), Phylogeny of Choanozoa, Apusozoa, and other protozoa and early eukaryote megaevolution. J. Mol. Evol. 56: 540-563.
Demospongiae,Hexactinellida.

Cha JN, K Shimizu, Y Zhou, SC Christiansen, BF Chmelka, GD Stucky & DE Morse (1999), Silicatein filaments and subunits from a marine sponge direct the polymerization of silica and silicones in vitro. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. (USA) 96: 361-365.
Glossary.

Chase, R (2002), Behavior & Its Neural Control in Gastropod Molluscs. Oxford Univ. Press. 
Basommatophora,Pulmonata, Stylommatophora,Systellommatophora.   

Chen, J-Y, DJ Bottjer, P Oliveri, SQ Dornbos, F Gao, S Ruffins, H-M Chi, C-W Li & EH Davidson (2004), Small bilaterian fossils from 40 to 55 million years before the Cambrian. Science 305: 218-222.
Hox Genes.

Chen, J-Y, P Oliveri, EH Davidson & DJ Bottjer 2004), Response to comment on "Small bilaterian fossils from 40 to 55 million years before the Cambrian". Science 306: 1291b.
Hox Genes

Chiu, C-H, K Dewar, GP Wagner, K Takahashi, F Ruddle, C Ledje, P Bartsch, J-L Scemama, E Stellwag, C Fried, SJ Prohaska, PF Stadler, & CT Amemiya (2004), Bichir HoxA cluster sequence reveals surprising trends in ray-finned fish genomic evolution. Genome Res. 14: 11-17.
Hox Genes.

Chombard C, N Boury-Esnault, A Tiller & J Vacelet (1997), Polyphyly of “sclerosponges” (Porifera, Demospongiae) supported by 28S ribosomal sequences. Biol. Bull. 193: 359-367.
Archaeocyatha, Stromatoporoidea.. 

Clarkson, ENK (1993), Invertebrate Palaeontology and Evolution [4th ed.]. Chapman & Hall, 434 pp.
Bivalvia,Gastropoda,Rostroconchia.

Colgan, DJ, PWF Ponder & PE Eggler (2000), Gastropod evolutionary rates and phylogenetic relationships assessed using partial 28S rDNA and histone H3 sequences. Zool. Scripta 29: 29-63.
Gastropod Systematics.

Conway Morris, S (1993), The fossil record and early evolution of the Metazoa. Nature 361: 219-225.
Ecdysozoa,Spiralia, Radiata.

Cook, CE, E Jiménez, M Akam & Emili Saló 2004), The Hox gene complement of acoel flatworms, a basal bilaterian clade. Evol. Devel. 6: 154-163.  
Bilateria, Hox Genes.

Cook, CE, Q-Y Yue & M Akam (2005), Mitochondrial genomes suggest that hexapods and crustaceans are mutually paraphyletic.  Proc. R. Soc. B 272: 1295–1304. 
Crustacea.

Cooke, J (2004), The evolutionary origins and significance of vertebrate left-right organisation. BioEssays 26: 413-421.
Deuterostomia

Copf, T, N Rabet, SE Celniker & M Averof (2003), Posterior patterning genes and the identification of a unique body region in the brine shrimp Artemia franciscana. Development 130: 5915-5927.
Hox Genes

Corsetti FA & AJ Kaufman (2003), Stratigraphic investigations of carbon isotope anomalies and Neoproterozoic ice ages in Death Valley, California. GSA Bull. 115: 916–932.
Archaeocyatha. 

Couly, G, S Creuzet, S Bennaceur, C Vincent & NM Le Douarin (2002), Interactions between Hox-negative cephalic neural crest cells and the foregut endoderm in patterning the facial skeleton in the vertebrate head. Development 129: 1061-1073.
Hox Genes.

Croce G, D Viterbo, M Milanesio & H Amenitsch 2006), A mesoporous pattern created by nature in spicules from Thetya aurantium sponge. Biophys. J. 92: 288-292.
Demospongiae.

D

Daly M, DG Fautin & VA Cappola (2003), Systematics of the Hexacorallia (Cnidaria: Anthozoa). Zool. J. Linn. Soc. 139: 419-437.
Stromatoporoidea. 

Dana JD (1896), Manual of Geology (4th ed.) Amer. Book Co., 1088 pp., reprinted atNineteenth Century Science.
Hexactinellida. 

Davidson, EH, KJ Peterson & RA Cameron (1995), Origin of bilaterian body plans: Evolution of developmental regulatory mechanisms. Science, 270: 1319-1325.
Deuterostomia,Bilateria.

Degnan BM, SP Leys & C Larroux (2005), Sponge development and antiquity of animal pattern formation. Integr. Comp. Biol., 45: 335–341.
Demospongiae.

Delle Cave, L & AM Simonetta (1991), Early Paleozoic Arthropoda and problems of arthropod phylogeny; with some notes on taxa of dubious affinities, in AM Simonetta & S Conway Morris (eds.), The Early Evolution of Metazoa and the Significance of Problematic Taxa. Cambridge U. Press, pp. 189-244.
Chasmataspida.

deRobertis, EM, EA Morita & KWY Cho (1991), Gradient fields and homeobox genes. Development 112: 669-678.
Hox Genes.

de Rosa, R, JK Grenier, T Andreeva, CE Cook, A Adoutte, M Akam, SB Carroll & G Balavoine (1999), Hox genes in brachiopods and priapulids and protostome evolution. Nature 399: 772-776.
Hox Genes.

Diehl-Seifert B, B Kurelec, RK Zahn, A Dorn, B Jeričevic, G Uhlenbruck & WEG Müller (1985), Attachment of sponge cells to collagen substrata: effect of a collagen assembly factor. J. Cell Sci. 79: 271-285.
Tetractinomorpha.

Dohle, W (1998), Myriapod-insect relationships as opposed to an insect-crustacean sister group relationship, in RA Fortey & RH Thomas [eds.], Arthropod Relationships.  Systematics Assoc. Spec. Vol. 55: 305-315.
Myriapoda.

Dominguez, P, AG Jacobson & RPS Jeffries (2002), Paired gill slits in a fossil with a calcite skeleton. Nature 417: 841-844.
Homalozoa.

Dominguez-Alonso, P (1999), The early evolution of echinoderms: The class Ctenocystoidea and its closest relatives revisited, in MD Candia Carnevalli & F Bonasoro [eds.], Echinoderm Research 1998. AA Balkema, pp. 263-268.
Cincta,Ctenocystoidea,Helicoplacoidea.

Donoghue, PCJ & MA Purnell (2005), Genome duplication, extinction and vertebrate evolution. TREE 46.4.
Hox Genes.

Dornbos, SQ & DJ Bottjer (2000), Taphonomy and environmental distribution of helicoplacoid echinoderms. Palaios 16: 197-204.
Helicoplacoidea.

Dornbos, SQ, DJ Bottjer & J-Y Chen (2005), Paleoecology of benthic metazoans in the Early Cambrian Maotianshan Shale biota and the Middle Cambrian Burgess Shale biota: evidence for the Cambrian substrate revolution. Palaeogeog. Palaeoclimat. Palaeoecol. 220: 47– 67.  
Archaeocyatha,Bilateria.

Dufour, HD, Z Chettouh, C Deyts, R de Rosa, C Goridis, J-S Joly, & J-F Brunet 2006), Precraniate origin of cranial motoneurons. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. (USA) 103: 8727-8732.
Hox Genes.

Dunlop, JA & PA Selden (1997), The early history and phylogeny of the chelicerates, in RA Fortey & RH Thomas (eds.) Proceedings of the International Symposium on the Relationship of the Major Arthropod Groups. Chapman & Hall, pp. 221-35.
Chasmataspida.

Dunlop, JA, LI Anderson, & SJ Braddy (1999), Forfarella mitchelli gen. et sp. nov., a chasmataspid from the Lower Devonian of the Midland Valley of Scotland. Trans. R. Soc. Edinburgh: Earth Sci, 89: 161-165.
Chasmataspida.

Dunn et al., CW; Hejnol, A; Matus, DQ; Pang, K; Browne, WE; Smith, SA; Seaver, E; Rouse, GW et al (2008). "Broad phylogenomic sampling improves resolution of the animal tree of life". Nature 452 (7188): 745–749. doi:10.1038/nature06614. PMID 18322464.
Classification.

Dupraz C, R Pattisina & EP Verrecchia (2006), Translation of energy into morphology: Simulation of stromatolite morphospace using a stochastic model. Sediment. Geol. 185: 185–203.
Glossary,Irregulares.  

Durham, JW (1993), Observations on the Early Cambrian helicoplacoid echinoderms. J. Paleontol. 67: 590-604.
Helicoplacoidea.

Dzik, J (1982), Larval development and relationships of Mimospira - a presumably hyperstrophic Ordovician gastropod. Geol. Fören. Stockholm Förhand. 104: 231-239.
Paragastropoda.

Dzik, J (1984), Phylogeny of the Nautiloidea. Pal. Pol. 45: 1-220.
Ascocerida,Barrandeocerina,Discosorida,Ellesmerocerida,Nautilida, Oncocerida,Orthocerida,Plectronocerida,Tarphycerida, Tarphycerina.

Dzik, J (1991), Is fossil evidence consistent with traditional views of the early metazoan phylogeny? in AM Simonetta & S Conway Morris eds.), The Early Evolution of Metazoa and the Significance of Problematic Taxa. Cambridge Univ. Press. 
Helcionellidae

Dzik, J (1993), Early Metazoan Evolution and the Meaning of its Fossil Record, in MK Hecht et al. (eds.), Evolutionary Biology. Plenum Press 27: 367.
Solenogastres.

Dzik, J (1994), Evolution of 'small shelly fossils' assemblages. Acta Pal. Pol. 39: 247 - 313.
Paragastropoda.

Dzik, J (1995), Yunnanozoon and the ancestry of chordates. Acta Pal. Pol. 40: 341-360.
Vetulicolia.

E

Eckert C, HC Schröder, D Brandt, S Perovic-Ottstadt & WEG Müller 2006), Histochemical and electron microscopic analysis of spiculogenesis in the demosponge Suberites domuncula. J. Histochem. Cytochem. 54: 1031–1040.
Demospongiae.

Edgecombe, GD & G Giribet (2002), Myriapod Phylogeny and the Relationships of Chilopoda, in J Llorente Bousquets & JJ Morrone [eds.], Biodiversidad, Taxonomía y Biogeografía de Artropodos de México: Hacia una Síntesis de su Conocimiento. Prensas de Ciencias, Univ. Nac. Auton. Méx. 3: 143-168.
Myriapoda.

Edgecombe, G. D., G. Giribet, C. W. Dunn, A. Hejnol,R. M. Kristensen, R. C. Neves, G. W. Rouse, K. Worsaae, and M. V. Sorensen. 2011. Higher-level metazoan relationships: recent progress and remaining questions. Organisms Diversity and Evolution. DOI 10.1007/s13127-011-0044-4.
Classification.

Eerkes-Medrano DI & SP Leys (2006), Ultrastructure and embryonic development of a syconoid calcareous sponge. Invert. Biol. 125: 177-194.
Demospongiae, Homoscleromorpha. 

Eisenmann, DM, JN Maloof, JS Simske, C Kenyon & SK Kim (1998), The β-catenin homolog BAR-1 and LET-60 Ras coordinately regulate the Hox gene lin-39 during Caenorhabditis elegans vulval development. Development 125: 3667-3680.
Hox Genes.

Eldredge, N (1974), Revision of the Suborder Synziphosurina (Chelicerata: Meristmata), with remarks on merostome phylogeny. Am. Mus. Nov.  #2543, 41 pp.
Chasmataspida.

Ereskovsky AV & EL Gonobobleva (2000), New data on embryonic development of Halisarca dujardini Johnston, 1842 (Demospongiae, Halisarcida). Zoosystema 22: 355- 368.
Demospongiae,Homoscleromorpha. 

Erpenbeck D & RWM van Soest (2006), Status and perspective of sponge chemosystematics.Marine Biotech. 9: 2-19.
Homoscleromorpha.

Erpenbeck D & G Wörheide (2007), On the molecular phylogeny of sponges (Porifera). Zootaxa 1668: 107-126.
Homoscleromorpha.

Erwin, DH & EH Davidson (2002), The last common bilaterian ancestor. Development 129: 3021-3032.  
Bilateria.

Exposito J-Y, C Cluzel, R Garrone & C Lethias (2002), Evolution of Collagens. Anat. Rec. 268: 302-316.
Demospongiae,Homoscleromorpha.

Extavour, CG & M Akam (2003), Mechanisms of germ cell specification across the metazoans: epigenesis and preformation. Development 130: 5869-5884.  
Bilateria.

F

Fautin, DG & SL Romano (2000), Anthozoa: Sea anemones, corals and sea pens, in The Tree of Life (acc. 050815). 
Radiata.

[Feng, W-M] 冯 伟民, [Z Chen] 陈 哲, & [W-G Shun] 孙 卫国 (2002), 晚前寒武纪末至早寒武世生物骨髓: 微细结构的分异. Sci. China D 32: 850-856.
Irregulares.

Fenton, MA & CL Fenton (1958), The Fossil Book. Doubleday. 
Nautiloidea.

Flower, RH (1955), Saltations in nautiloid coiling. Evolution 9: 244-260.
Ellesmerocerida,Endocerida.    

Flower, RH & BA Kummel (1950), A classification of the Nautiloidea, J. Paleontol., 24: 604-616.
Actinocerida,Ascocerida, Barrandeocerina,Discosorida, Ellesmerocerida,Endocerida, Nautilida,Oncocerida, Orthocerida,Pseudorthocerida,Tarphycerina.

Friedrich, M D Tautz (1995), rDNA phylogeny of the major extant arthropod classes and the evolution of the Myriapoda. Nature, 376: 165-167.
Myriapoda.

Funch, P & RM Kristensen 1995), Cycliophora is a new phylum with affinities to Endoprocta and Ectoprocta. Nature 378: 711-714.
Protostomia.

Furlong, RF & PWH Holland (2002), Bayesian phylogenetic analysis supports monophyly of Ambulacraria and of cyclostomes. Zool. Sci. 19: 593-599.
Ambulacraria.

Futuyma, D (1997), Evolutionary Biology [3rd ed.] Sinauer Assocs. 
Mollusca Shell Morphology.

G

Galloway JJ & J St. Jean (1955), The Type of the Stromatoporoid species Stromatocerium rugosum Hall. Am. Mus. Nov. No. 1728, 12 pp.
Stromatoporoidea. 

García-Fernàndez, J (2005), Hox, ParaHox, ProtoHox: facts and guesses. Heredity 94: 145-152.
Hox Genes. 

Gatenby JB (1927), Further notes on the gametogenesis and fertilization of sponges. J. Cell Sci. 282: 173-188. 
Homoscleromorpha.

Ghysen, A (2003), The origin and evolution of the nervous system. Int. J. Dev. Biol. 47: 555-562.  
Bilateria, Hox Genes.

Giraldo, R & R Díaz-Orejas 2001), Similarities between the DNA replication initiators of Gram-negative bacteria plasmids (RepA) and eukaryotes Orc4p)/archaea (Cdc6p). Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. 98: 4938-4943.
Hox Genes

Giribet, G & CS Carranza (1999), Point Counter Point. What can 18S rDNA do for Bivalve phylogeny? J. Mol. Evol. 48: 256-258.
Bivalvia Dendrogram.

Giribet G, & C Ribera (1998), The position of arthropods in the animal kingdom: a search for a reliable outgroup for internal arthropod phylogeny. Mol Phylogen. Evol. 9: 481-488.
Deuterostomia, Spiralia,Protostomia.

Giribet, G, DL Distel, M Polz, W Sterrer & WC Wheeler (2000), Triploblastic relationships with emphasis on the acoelomates and the position of Gnathostomulida, Cycliophora, Plathelminthes, and Chaetognatha: A combined approach of 18S rDNA sequences and morphology. Syst. Biol. 49: 539-562.
Bilateria.

Giribet, G, S Richter, GD Edgecombe, & WC Wheeler 2005), The position of crustaceans within Arthropoda - evidence from nine genes and morphology, in S Koenemann & R Jenner (eds.), Crustacea and Arthropod Relationships. Crustacean Issues 16: 307-352.
Crustacea.

Golikov, AN & YIS Tarobogatov (1975), Systematics of prosobranch gastropods. Malacologia 15:185 - 232.
Bellerophontida,"Bellerophontiforms",Eogastropoda,Patellogastropoda, Tropodiscidae.

Green CR & PR Bergquist (1982), Phylogenetic relationships within the Invertebrata in relation to the structure of septate junctions and the development of 'occluding' junctional types. J. Cell Sci. 53: 279-305.
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Hexactinellida. 

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Bilateria.

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Eogastropoda,Gastropod Systematics, Orthogastropoda.   

Haszprunar, G (1988a), A preliminary phylogentic analysis of the streptoneurous gastropods, in Prosobranch Phylogeny, Malacol. Rev. Supplement 4: 7-17. A short cladistic revision of the Prosobranchia. 
Molluscan Phylogeny.

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Caudofoveata,Solenogastres.

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Hox Genes.

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Porifera Dendrogram,Stromatoporoidea

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Bilateria.

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Euarthropoda,Radiata.

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Hox Genes.

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Stromatoporoidea. 

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Hox Genes

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Hox Genes.

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Ambulacraria.

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Hox Genes.

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Deuterostomia,Homalozoa, Stylophora,Vetulocystidae.

Jefferies, RPS (1997), How chordates and echinoderms separated from each other and the problem of dorso-ventral inversion. Pal. Soc. Papers 3: 249-266.
Cincta,Ctenocystoidea,Soluta.

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Stromatoporoidea.

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K

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Bilateria.

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Hox Genes

Kmita-Cunisse, M, F Loosli, J Bièrne & WJ Gehring (1998), Homeobox genes in the ribbonworm Lineus sanguineus: Evolutionary implications.  Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. (USA) 95: 3030-3035.
Hox Genes

Knight, JB & EL Yochelson (1960), Monoplacophora, in RC Moore (ed.), Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology. Part I. Mollusca. Geol. Soc. Amer. & Kansas Univ. Press, 1: 77-84.
Monoplacophora,Polyplacophora, Scenellidae.

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Bellerophontida,"Bellerophontiforms",Coreospiridae,Eogastropoda,Euomphalida, Gastropoda,Gastropod Systematics, Helcionellidae,Macluritoidea,Mimospirida,Omphalocirridae,Paragastropoda,Patellogastropoda, Sinuopeidae,Tropodiscidae.   

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Hox Genes.

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Archaeocyatha. 

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Myriapoda.

Krautter M (1998), Ecology of siliceous sponges: Application to the environmental interpretation of the Upper Jurassic sponge facies (Oxfordian) from Spain. Cuad. Geol. Ibér. 24: 223-239.
Hexactinellida.

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Hox Genes.

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Vetulicolia.

Lacalli, TC, THJ Gilmour & SJ Kelly (1999), The oral nerve plexus in amphioxus larvae: function, cell types and phylogenetic significance, Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B 266: 1461-1470.
Deuterostomia.

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Demospongiae.

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Bilateria.

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Bilateria.

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Bilateria.

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Crustacea.

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Hox Genes.

Lefebvre, B (2003), Functional morphology of stylophoran echinoderms. Palaeontology 46: 511-555.
Stylophora.

Lehnert H, R Stone & W Heimler (2005), Two new species of Plakina Schulze, 1880 (Porifera, Plakinidae) from the Aleutian Islands (Alaska, USA),Zootaxa 1068: 27-38.
Homoscleromorpha. 

Leinfelder RR, W Werner, M Nose, DU Schmid, M Krautter, R Laternser, M Takacs & D Hartmann (1996), Paleoecology, growth parameters and dynamics of coral, sponge and microbolite reefs from the Late Jurassic. In J Reitner, F Neuweiler & FA Gunkel (eds.), Global and Regional Controls on Biogenic Sedimentation. I. Reef Evolution. Research Reports. Göttinger Arb. Geol. Paläont., Sb2, 227-248.
Irregulares, Stromatoporoidea..  

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Bilateria.

Leys SP (2003), The significance of syncytial tissues for the position of the Hexactinellida in the Metazoa. Integr. Comp. Biol. 43: 19-27.
Hexactinellida.

Leys SP, E Cheung & N Boury-Esnaulty (2006), Embryogenesis in the glass sponge Oopsacas minuta: Formation of syncytia by fusion of blastomeres. Integr. Comp. Biol., 46: 104-117. 
Hexactinellida,Porifera. 

Leys SP, TW Cronin, BM Degnan & JN Marshall (2002), Spectral sensitivity in a sponge larva. J. Comp. Physiol. A 188: 199-202.
Demospongiae. 

Leys SP & BM Degnan (2001), Cytological basis of photoresponsive behavior in a sponge larva.  Biol. Bull. 201: 323-338.
Demospongiae, Glossary. 

Leys SP & AV Ereskovsky (2006), Embryogenesis and larval differentiation in sponges. Can. J. Zool. 84: 262–287.
Glossary, Homoscleromorpha, Irregulares. 

Li C-W, J-Y Chen & T-E Hua (1998), Precambrian sponges with cellular structures. Science 279: 879-882.
Glossary,Porifera.

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Hox Genes.

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Eogastropoda,Patellogastropoda.

Linsley, RM (1978), Locomotion rates and shell form in the gastropoda. Malacologia 17: 193-206.
Bellerophontida,"Bellerophontiforms".

Linsley, RM & WM Kier (1984), The Paragastropoda: A proposal for a new class of Paleozoic Mollusca. Malacologia 25: 241-254.
Euomphalida,Macluritoidea,Mimospirida,Omphalocirridae,Paragastropoda,Pelagiellida.

M

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Deuterostomia.

Macpherson, JH & CJ Gabriel (1962), Marine Molluscs of Victoria. Melbourne University Press. 
Actophila,Bivalvia,Bivalvia Shell, Gastropoda,Basommatophora.

Maeda, RK & F Karch (2006), The ABC of the BX-C: the bithorax complex explained.  Development 133: 1413-1422.
Hox Genes

Maggenti AR, MA Maggenti & SL Gardner (2005), On-Line Dictionary of Invertebrate Biology.
Glossary.

Maldonado M (2004), Choanoflagellates, choanocytes, and animal multicellularity. Invert. Bio. 123: 1-22.
Demospongiae, ,Homoscleromorpha,Glossary.

Maldonado M, M Durfort, DA McCarthy & CM Young (2003), The cellular basis of photobehavior in the tufted parenchymella larva of demosponges. Marine Biol. 143: 427-441.
Glossary, Porifera Notes.

Maldonado M, SB George, CM Young & I Vaquerizo (1997), Depth regulation in parenchymella larvae of a demosponge: relative roles of skeletogenesis, biochemical changes and behavior, Mar. Ecol. Progr. Ser. 148: 115-124.
Porifera Notes. 

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Demospongiae,Homoscleromorpha.

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Archaeocyatha. 

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Classification.

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Crustacea.

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Hox Genes.

Martínez-Menarguez JA, H Geuze & J Ballesta (1996), Evidence for a nonlysosomal origin of the acrosome. J. Histochem. Cytochem. 44: 313-320.
Glossary.

Medina M, AG Collins, JD Silberman & ML Sogin 2001), Evaluating hypotheses of basal animal phylogeny using complete sequences of large and small subunit rRNA. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. (USA) 98: 9707–9712.
Demospongiae, Hexactinellida.

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Archaeocyatha. 

Meinhardt, H (2002), The radial-symmetric hydra and the evolution of the bilateral body plan: an old body became a young brain. BioEssays 24: 185-191.  
Bilateria.

Miller, A. J. (2004), A revised morphology of Cloudina with ecological and phylogenetic implications. unpublished mss.
Irregulares.

Miller, SA & JP Harley (1996), Zoology [3rd ed.] Wm. C. Brown Publishers. 
Deuterostomia.

Minguillon, C & J Garcia-Fernandez (2002), The single amphioxus Mox gene: Insights into the functional evolution of Mox genes, somites, and the asymmetry of amphioxus somitogenesis. Devel. Biol. 246: 455-465.
Deuterostomia.

Minguillón, C & J Garcia-Fernàndez (2003), Genesis and evolution of the Evx and Mox genes and the extended Hox and ParaHox gene clusters. Genome Biol. 4: R12.
Hox Genes.

Minguillón C, J Gardenyes, E Serra, LFC Castro, A Hill-Force, PWH Holland, CT Amemiya, & J Garcia-Fernàndez (2005), No more than 14: the end of the amphioxus Hox cluster. Int. J. Biol. Sci. 1: 19-23.
Hox Genes.

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Porifera. 

Mizzaro-Wimmer, M & L Salvini-Plawen 2001), Praktische Malakologie: Beiträge zur vergleichend-anatomischen Bearbeitung der Mollusken: Caudofoveata bis Gastropoda – "Streptoneura". Springer, 188 pp.
Molluscan Phylogeny.

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Hox Genes.

Monteiro, AS & DEK Ferrier (2006), Hox genes are not always colinear.  Int. J. Biol. Sci. 2: 95-103.
Hox Genes.

Monteiro, AS, B Okamura & PWH Holland (2002), Orphan worm finds a home: Buddenbrockia is a myxozoan. Mol. Biol. Evol. 19: 968–971.
Bilateria.

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Archaeocyatha,Ascocerida,Bactritida, Barrandeocerina,Bellerophontida,"Bellerophontiforms",Bivalvia,Bivalvia Gills, Bivalvia Shell, Cephalopoda Glossary, Ellesmerocerida,Endocerida, Eogastropoda,Euomphalida, Macluritoidea,Oncocerida,Paterinida,Sinuopeidae,Stylommatophora, Tarphycerina.

Morris, PJ (1991), Functional Morphology and Phylogeny: an Assessment of Monophyly in the Kingdom Animalia and Paleozoic Nearly-Planispiral Snail-Like Mollusks. Unpubl. Ph.D. dissertation., Harvard University. 406 pp.
Paragastropoda.

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Glossary.

Müller WEG (2003), The origin of metazoan complexity: Porifera as integrated animals. Integr. Comp. Biol., 43: 3–10.
Porifera. 

Müller WEG, OV Kaluzhnaya, SI Belikov, M Rothenberger, HC Schröder, A Reiber, JA Kaandorp, B Manz, D Mietchen, & F Volke 2006), Magnetic resonance imaging of the siliceous skeleton of the demosponge Lubomirskia baicalensis. J. Struct. Biol. 153: 31-41.
Demospongiae.

Müller WEG, J-H Li, HC Schröder, L Qiao& X-H Wang 2007), The unique skeleton of siliceous sponges (Porifera; Hexactinellida and Demospongiae) that evolved first from the Urmetazoa during the Proterozoic: a review. Biogeosciences 4: 219-232.
Archaeocyatha, Demspongiae,Hexactinellida, Porifera. 

Murakami, Y, M Pasqualetti, Y Takio, S Hirano, FM Rijli & S Kuratani (2003), Segmental development of reticulospinal and branchiomotor neurons in lamprey: insights into the evolution of the vertebrate hindbrain. Development 131: 983-995.
Hox Genes.

Muricy G, N Boury-Esnault, C Bézac & J Vacelet (1998), Taxonomic revision of the Mediterranean Plakina Schulze (Porifera, Demospongiae, Homoscleromorpha).Zool. J. Linn. Soc. 124: 169-203.
Homoscleromorpha.

N

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Hox Genes

Nichols SA, W Dirks, JS Pearse & N King (2006), Early evolution of animal cell signaling and adhesion genes. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. (USA) 103: 12451–12456.
Homoscleromorpha, Porifera

O

O'Kelly CJ, MA Farmer & TA Nerad (1999), Ultrastructure of Trimastix pyriformis (Klebs) and similarities of Trimastix species with retortamonads and jakobids. Protist 150: 149-162. 
Glossary.

Ostrom, JH (1992), A history of vertebrate successes. In JW Schopf (ed.), Major Events in the History of Life. Jones and Bartlett.
Glossary.

P

Packard, A (1972), Cephalopods and fish - - the limits of convergence. Biol. Rev. 47: 241-307.
Cephalopod Brain.   

Papillon, D, Y Perez, L Fasano, Y Le Parco & X Caubit (2005), Restricted expression of a median Hox gene in the central nervous system of chaetognaths. Dev. Genes Evol. 215: 369–373.  
Bilateria, Hox Genes.

Parker, SP (ed.) (1982), Synopsis and classification of living organisms. McGraw-Hill Book Co., 2 vv. Bivalvia Dendrogram,Solenogastres.

Parmley, JL, AO Urrutia, L Potrzebowski, H Kaessmann, & LD Hurst (2007), Splicing and the evolution of proteins in mammals.  PLoS Biol. 5: e14.
Hox Genes.   

Parsley, RL (1997), The echinoderm classes Stylophora and Homoiostelea: Non Calcichordata. Pal. Soc. Papers 3: 225-248.
Soluta.

Parsley, RL (1999), The Cincta (Homostelea) as blastozoans, in MD Candia Carnevalli & F Bonasoro [eds.], Echinoderm Research 1998. AA Balkema, pp. 369-375.
Cincta,Ctenocystoidea.   

Patterson, DJ (1999), The diversity of eukaryotes. Amer. Naturalist 65: S96-S124.
Demospongiae, Porifera Notes.

Pearson, JC, D Lemons & W McGinnis (2005), Modulating Hox gene functions during animal body patterning.  Nature Rev. Genetics 6: 893-904.
Hox Genes.

Peel, J (1991), Functional morphology of the Class Helcionelloida nov., and the early evolution of the Mollusca, in AM Simonetta & S Conway Morris eds.), The Early Evolution of Metazoa and the Significance of Problematic Taxa. Cambridge Univ. Press, pp.157-177.
"Bellerophontiforms",Helcioelloida,Helcionelloida Dendrogram, Molluscan Phylogeny,Monoplacophora,Rostroconchia,Stenothecidae,Tergomya, Yochelcionellidae.

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Archaeocyatha,Irregulares. 

Peterson, KJ & DJ Eernisse (2001), Animal phylogeny and the ancestry of bilaterians: inferences from morphology and 18S rDNA gene sequences. Evol. Devel. 3: 170-205.
Deuterostomia,Bilateria, Ecdysozoa,Spiralia, Protostomia.

Peterson, KJ, SQ Irvine, RA Cameron & EH Davidson (2000), Quantitative assessment of hox complex expression in the indirect development of the polychaete annelid Chaetopterus sp. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. (USA) 97: 4487-4492.
Hox Genes

Peterson, KJ, MA McPeek & DAD Evans (2005), Tempo and mode of early animal evolution: inferences from rocks, Hox, and molecular clocks. Paleobiology 31: 36-55.
Hox Genes

Peterson, KJ, B Waggoner & JW Haggadorn 2003), A fungal analog for Newfoundland Ediacaran fossils? Integr. Comp. Biol. 43: 127-136.  
Bilateria,Porifera.

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Bilateria.

Pojeta, J (1980), Molluscan Phylogeny. Tulane Stud. Geol. & Paleontol. 16: 55-80.
Helcionelloida Dendrogram, Rostroconchia.

Pojeta, J ( 1987), Class Pelecypoda, in AH Cheetham & AJ Rowell (eds.) Fossil Invertebrates. Blackwell Scientific Publs. 
Bivalvia Gills.

Pojeta, J & B Runnegar (1976), The paleontology of the rostrochonch molluscs and the early history of the Phylum Mollusca.  U.S.G.S. Prof. Paper #968, 88 pp.
Rostroconchia.

Pojeta, J, B Runnegar, NJ Morris & ND Newell (1972), Rostrochonchia: A new class of bivalved mollusks. Science 177: 264-266.
Rostroconchia.

Ponder, WF & DR Lindberg (1996), Gastropod phylogeny -- challenges for the 90's, in J Taylor (ed.), Origin and Evolutionary Radiation o f the Mollusca. Oxford Univ. Press, pp. 135-154.
Euomphalida,Gastropod Systematics.   

Ponder, WF & DR Lindberg (1997), Towards a phylogeny of gastropod molluscs: an analysis using morphological characters. Zool. J. Linn. Soc. 119: 83-265.
Eogastropoda,Euomphalida.

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Demospongiae.

R

Raup, DM (1962), Computer as aid in describing form in gastropod shells. Science 138: 150-152.
Mollusca Shell Morphology.

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Mollusca Shell Morphology.

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Hox Genes.

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Gastropoda.

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Patellogastropoda.

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Actophila,Bellerophontida,"Bellerophontiforms",Caudofoveata,Molluscan Phylogeny, Pulmonata, Solenogastres.

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Hox Genes.

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Homoscleromorpha, Tetractinomorpha. 

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Hox Genes.

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Oncocerida.

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Cincta.

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Homoscleromorpha,Sponge Spicules.

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Hox Genes.

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Actophila,Basommatophora.

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Stylommatophora.

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Hox Genes.

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Demospongiae,Irregulares.

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Hox Genes.

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Hox Genes.

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Archaeocyatha, Hexactinellida, Porifera, Stromatoporoidea.  . 

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Deuterostomia.

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Bilateria.

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Paterinida.

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Archaeocyatha.

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Demospongiae. 

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Hox Genes. 

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Stenothecidae.

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Helcionelloida,Molluscan Phylogeny, Monoplacophora,Paragastropoda,Pelagiellida,Scaphopoda.

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Protostomia.