Genomes
"One key questions for evolutionary developmental biology (EvoDevo) is to reconstruct the genetic tool-kit present in Urbilateria, the last common ancestor of invertebrates and vertebrates...In the medium-term it will be important to have at least one complete genome from each animal phylum, and in the long-term to reconstruct the archetypal genome of Urbilateria."
— Edward De Robertis (2008)
Genome resources
The Hofstenia genome (Gehrke et al., 2019):
The Notospermus genome (Luo et al, 2018):
The Phoronis genome (Luo et al, 2018):
The Lingula genome (Luo et al., 2015):
References
Gehrke AR, Neverett E, Luo YJ, Brandt A, Ricci L, Hulett RE, Gompers A, Ruby JG, Rokhsar DS, Reddien PW, Srivastava M (2019) Acoel genome reveals the regulatory landscape of whole-body regeneration. Science 363, eaau6173. | Link
Luo YJ, Kanda M, Koyanagi R, Hisata K, Akiyama T, Sakamoto H, Sakamoto T, Satoh N (2018) Nemertean and phoronid genomes reveal lophotrochozoan evolution and the origin of bilaterian heads. Nature Ecology & Evolution 2, 141–151. | Link
Luo YJ, Takeuchi T, Koyanagi R, Yamada L, Kanda M, Khalturina M, Fujie M, Yamasaki S, Endo K, Satoh N (2015) The Lingula genome provides insights into brachiopod evolution and the origin of phosphate biomineralization. Nature Communications 6, 8301. | Link