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The Notion of the Cambrian Pananimalia Genome and a Genomic Difference that Separated Vertebrates from Invertebrates

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Molecular Evolution: Towards the Origin of Metazoa

Part of the book series: Progress in Molecular and Subcellular Biology ((PMSB,volume 21))

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When our knowledge of early Cambrian fossils was almost entirely derived from the Burgess fauna in British Colombia, Canada, the so-called Cambrian explosion that started roughly 540 million years ago appeared to have been a rather slow detonation lasting 20 to 30 million years (Conway Morris 1989). The subsequent discovery of other early Cambrian faunas such as the Chenjiang fauna in Yunnan province, China, forced us to reevaluate the above noted initial estimate. It now appears that the Cambrian explosion was indeed a literal explosion, ancestral forms belonging to nearly all the extant animal phyla came into being within the short period of 6 to 10 million years (Gould 1995). In the case of the phylum Chordata, to which our own species belongs, its three tiers, namely Urochordata, Cephalochordata and Vertebrata, too appear to have emerged almost simultaneously within this short duration.

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Ohno, S. (1998). The Notion of the Cambrian Pananimalia Genome and a Genomic Difference that Separated Vertebrates from Invertebrates. In: Müller, W.E.G. (eds) Molecular Evolution: Towards the Origin of Metazoa. Progress in Molecular and Subcellular Biology, vol 21. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-72236-3_5

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