supported by the Chinese Academy ofSciences(KZZD-EW-02);the Project-Oriented Hundred TalentsProgram of the Chinese Academy of Sciences(KZCX2-YW-BR-23);the National Science Foundation of China Research Fellowshipfor International Young Scientists(41150110152)
Here is currently little consensus on the branching order and phyletic status of the oldest metazoan groups, but sponges are widely believed to be the earliestbranching living metazoans. Porifera are thought to have d...