Plessy C, Mansfield MJ, Bliznina A, Masunaga A, West C, Tan Y, Liu AW, Grašič J, Del Río Pisula MS, Sánchez-Serna G, Fabrega-Torrus M, Ferrández-Roldán A, Roncalli V, Navratilova P, Thompson EM, Onuma T, Nishida H, Cañestro C, Luscombe NM.

Genome Res. 2024 Apr 25;34(3):426-440. doi:10.1101/gr.278295.123

Extreme genome scrambling in marine planktonic Oikopleura dioica cryptic species.

Gene order is scrambled between O. dioica species. Molecular clock analysis of 177 single-copy orthologs places appendicularian sister to all tunicates.