Jordi Paps

TL;DR: The sequencing and assembly of the oyster genome using short reads and a fosmid-pooling strategy and transcriptomes of development and stress response and the proteome of the shell are reported, showing that shell formation in molluscs is more complex than currently understood and involves extensive participation of cells and their exosomes.

TL;DR: An analysis of tapeworm genome sequences using the human-infective species Echinococcus multilocularis, E. granulosus, Taenia solium and the laboratory model Hymenolepis microstoma offers insights into the evolution of parasitism and identifies new potential drug targets.

TL;DR: This study demonstrates that Platyhelminthes are polyphyletic and that acoels and nemertodermatids are the extant earliest bilaterians, and that the common bilaterian ancestor was not, as currently held, large and complex but small, simple, and likely with direct development.

TL;DR: It is argued that characters like neuropeptide signaling, ciliary photoreceptors, gap junctions and presynaptic molecules are consistent with a shared ancestry of nervous systems, however, that phylogenetic-tree construction artifacts may have placed ctenophores too deep in the metazoan tree.

TL;DR: These analyses support the Filozoa hypothesis in which Ichthyosporea are the first holozoan lineage to emerge followed by Filasterea, Choanoflagellata, and Metazoa and represent independent tests of previous phylogenetic hypotheses.