The conservation of genome regulatory elements over long periods of evolution is not limited to vertebrates, as previously thought, but also in echinoderms (invertebrates). This is one of the most ...

(Phys.org)—A team of researchers from the U.K. and the U.S. has identified the remains of a 430-million-year-old extinct echinoderm found in a fossil bed in Herefordshire, England. In their paper ...

Phylogenomic approaches have transformed our understanding of echinoderm evolution by combining genome-scale data with palaeontological evidence to reconstruct robust phylogenies across all five ...