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BLAST analyses of identified ORFs showed that two were significantly similar to known viral proteins characteristic of distant viral phyla.
A writer catalogs the six phyla of screen aliens, which include "the small, gray, hairless, chinless, big-eyed waif" à la Close Encounters and "the comic-relief plush toy" such as Alf.
An analysis of small subunit ribosomal RNA (18S rRNA) sequences challenged this arrangement by placing acoelomate and pseudocoelomate phyla in more derived positions among the protostomes, and in further defining a clade (Ecdysozoa) of molting animals that includes arthropods and nematodes [ 3 ] . This "Ecdysozoa" hypothesis has influenced diverse fields [ 4 ] and interpretations of developmental evolution in animals [ 5 6 7 ] . Since its publication, evidence has appeared both for and against this hypothesis [ 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 ] . Knowing the branching order of the major animal lineages, especially those three with fully sequenced genomes, is of importance to diverse fields such as medical genetics, physiology, neurobiology, paleontology, and astrobiology.
Analogous developmental strategies have evolved several times outside the ciliates, scattered across phyla [ 15 19 ] ; thus, mammalian immunity depends on irreversible somatic genome alterations [ 20 ] . Initially the MAC anlage's chromosomes are endo-reduplicated, evidenced by visible polyteny in a variety of ciliates.
An example for the comparison of four genomes from different phyla is given in Fig.
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