tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17262131.post7121042195276073061..comments2023-09-30T21:01:03.664+01:00Comments on El Gentraso: We are familyJohn Whitfieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07808639289887327978noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17262131.post-91600987150792363362007-03-20T19:49:00.000+00:002007-03-20T19:49:00.000+00:00I personally am not surprised that we are still tr...I personally am not surprised that we are still trying to figure out how the animal phyla are related. Reasons I am not surprised include: (1) we actually have very poor genomic sampling across the animal tree, (2) the divergence of the phyla was a long time ago ... mind you not as long as some of the bacterial phyla I work on, but it was still a long time ago. This means that there is an enormous amount of noise present, due to all the vagaries of evolution that have happened since the divergence, (3) methods to analyze genome-scale data are in their infancy (although Philippe is the person who is doing this better than anyone else). <BR/><BR/>I think there is hope that we will have much better resolution of some questions concerning deep evolution, but I think it will have to wait a few years until we have a few 1000 animal genomes.Jonathan Eisenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07953790938128734305noreply@blogger.com