A. K. Redmond

Acoelomorph flatworm monophyly is a severe long-branch attraction artefact obscuring a clade of Acoela and Xenoturbellida

This study identifies long-branch attraction artefacts in phylogenomic data, revealing a new clade of Xenacoela comprising Xenoturbella and Acoela, and challenges the traditional classification of Xenacoelomorpha.

Extensive lineage-specific rediploidisation masks shared whole genome duplication in the sturgeon-paddlefish ancestor

The paper shows that shared whole genome duplication in the sturgeon-paddlefish ancestor is masked by lineage-specific rediploidisation, revealing a mosaic of shared and non-shared gene duplications.