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Our phylogenetic analyses imply that the most basal extant scleractinians are azooxanthellate solitary corals from deep-water, their divergence predating that of the robust and complex corals.

The deep-sea holds important clues to anthozoan evolution, and overall, our phylogenetic reconstruction shows that the most basal extant scleractinians are azooxanthellate corals from deep-water (probably with azooxanthellate shallow-water ancestors), not only in the case of gardineriids/micrabaciids, but also in relation to the "robust" coral clade, and possibly within extant agariciids.

Here, extensive genomic analysis of two sea squirts, C. intestinalis and Ciona savignyi, the sea urchin, Strongylocentrotus purpuratus, and the most basal extant chordate lineage, the amphioxus Branchiostoma floridae [41], [42], demonstrated the presence of four CatSper subunits and single copies of CatSperβ in these four species (Fig. 1A and Supplementary Table S1).

As one of the most basal extant vertebrates, these animals can provide helpful evolutionary perspective.

Within the subclass Autolamellibranchiata, the instances of DUI were reported only from the most basal extant group, Mytiloida.

Interestingly, the most basal extant land plants (liverworts) lack a tapetum, which is acquired in mosses and vascular plants.

Cnidaria is likely to be the most basal of extant metazoans to be venomous, so we used Acropora digitifera for which we had already annotated the predicted proteome [ 38] to evaluate the extent to which gene duplication could account for toxin diversification in this reef-building coral.

By contrast, chondrichthyans are the most basal lineage of extant gnathostomes, and shark fins retain many plesiomorphic features, including a tribasal skeleton from which an elaborate series of radials project distally [1], [43].

Amborella, Nuphar (water lily), and Illicium (star anise) represent the most basal clades of extant angiosperms.

The most basal split within extant snakes is between Scolecophidia (blind- and wormsnakes) and Alethinophidia.

Based on the most basal divergences among extant lineages, red foxes started to diversify in Eurasia during the end of the Mid Pleistocene.