Evolutionary BiologybioRxivPreprint
From solitary to colonial with zooid miniaturization: ancestral-state reconstruction based on NGS data of stolidobranch ascidians
Naohiro Hasegawa, Shin Matsubara, Akira Shiraishi…·Hiroshi Kajihara
The paper uses NGS data to reconstruct ancestral states in stolidobranch ascidians, finding that coloniality leads to zooid miniaturization and that coloniality evolved independently three times.
DOI 10.1101/2023.12.27.573391