Figure 1. Cladogram of Cnidaria displaying some major lineages including placement of species used in this study (greyscale clades).

Phylogenetic tree representing some of the major clades of Cnidaria (based (Chang et al., 2015; Kayal et al., 2018)). The species sampled in this venomics study were the myxozoans Buddenbrockia plumatellae, Myxobilatus gasterostei and Sphaerospora elegans, the parasitic and free-living Polypodium hydriforme and the free-living staurozoan Calvadosia cruxmelitensis.