{"id":227643,"date":"2025-12-22T22:19:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T04:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/a-genome-based-phylogeny-for-mollusca-is-concordant-with-fossils-and-morphology"},"modified":"2025-12-22T22:19:00","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T04:19:00","slug":"a-genome-based-phylogeny-for-mollusca-is-concordant-with-fossils-and-morphology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/a-genome-based-phylogeny-for-mollusca-is-concordant-with-fossils-and-morphology","title":{"rendered":"A genome-based phylogeny for Mollusca is concordant with fossils and morphology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-genome-based-phylogeny-for-mollusca-is-concordant-with-fossils-and-morphology2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Extreme morphological disparity within <i>Mollusca<\/i> has long confounded efforts to reconstruct a stable backbone phylogeny for the phylum. Familiar molluscan groups\u2014gastropods, bivalves, and cephalopods\u2014each represent a diverse radiation with myriad morphological, ecological, and behavioral adaptations. The phylum further encompasses many more unfamiliar experiments in animal body-plan evolution. In this work, we reconstructed the phylogeny for living <i>Mollusca<\/i> on the basis of metazoan BUSCO (Benchmarking Universal Single-Copy Orthologs) genes extracted from 77 (13 new) genomes, including multiple members of all eight classes with two high-quality genome assemblies for monoplacophorans. Our analyses confirm a phylogeny proposed from morphology and show widespread genomic variation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Extreme morphological disparity within Mollusca has long confounded efforts to reconstruct a stable backbone phylogeny for the phylum. Familiar molluscan groups\u2014gastropods, bivalves, and cephalopods\u2014each represent a diverse radiation with myriad morphological, ecological, and behavioral adaptations. The phylum further encompasses many more unfamiliar experiments in animal body-plan evolution. In this work, we reconstructed the phylogeny for [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,385],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-227643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-evolution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227643\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}