Figure 1.

Phylogeny of Eukaryotes with gene loss pattern. Taxa for which a species whose genome is fully sequenced and which were used to determine clusters of ancestrally present genes lost in mammals are represented in Bold. Model species used are indicated in italics. Number of ancestral Opisthokonts gene families present at each node is indicated in green, and the number of gene families that have been lost is represented in red. Due to lack of genomic data we were unable to evaluate the number of ancestral genes still present in the Lophotrochozoan ancestor. The phylogeny represented is according to the Ecdysozoa hypothesis for the position of Caenorhabditis elegans, note that under the Coelomata hypothesis the loss pattern would be unchanged.