Leonid L. Moroz

TL;DR: The draft genome of Pleurobrachia bachei, Pacific sea gooseberry, together with ten other ctenophore transcriptomes, are presented, and show that they are remarkably distinct from other animal genomes in their content of neurogenic, immune and developmental genes.

TL;DR: To study the relationships among all deuterostome groups, an alignment of more than 35,000 homologous amino acids is assembled, including new data from a hemichordate, starfish and Xenoturbella and it is concluded that chordates are monophyletic.

TL;DR: A novel simple cDNA normalization method that may be effectively used for samples enriched with full-length cDNA sequences and employed to normalize cDNA from nervous tissues of the marine mollusc Aplysia californica to illustrate further the efficiency of the normalization technique.

TL;DR: This work uses transcriptome and genome data from all major lineages (except Monoplacophora) and recovers a well-supported topology for Mollusca to propose the node-based name Pleistomolluscan, which strongly support the Aculifera hypothesis and finds support for advanced cephalization and shells as possibly having multiple origins within Mollsusca.

TL;DR: This phylogeny makes sense of the shared characteristics of Xenoturbellida and Acoelomorpha, and implies the loss of various deuterostome characters in the Xenobiology including coelomic cavities, through gut and gill slits.