Tunicates and not cephalochordates are the closest living relatives of vertebrates

By Frédéric Delsuc, H. Brinkmann, D. Chourrout, Hervé Philippe. Nature, 2006

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Higher-level metazoan relationships: recent progress and remaining questions (2011, methodology): “Within Chordata, Olfactores groups Urochordata and Craniata (Delsuc et al. 2006), and in molecular datasets only the position of Cephalochordata has received minor instability, with a brief placement as sister group to Echinodermata (Delsuc et al. 2006) soon corrected in favour of sister-group relat”
Animal Phylogeny and Its Evolutionary Implications (2014, methodology): “Recent analyses of gene sequence data have consistently supported the placement ofUrochordata, rather thanCephalochordata, as the sister group toCraniata (Delsuc et al. 2006), though there is still active discussion about the congruence between these results and the morphological data (Stach 2008).”
IS A NEW AND GENERAL THEORY OF MOLECULAR SYSTEMATICS EMERGING? (2009, background): “doi:10.1111/j.1558-5646.2008.00549.x”
The choice of model organisms in evo–devo (2007, background): “For example, although the sessile tunicates might be the closest living relatives of the craniate”
Morphology should not be forgotten in the era of genomics—a phylogenetic perspective (2015, neutral): “… sampling efforts thus combined the 87 previous genomic data with a rapidly evolving set of multigene data sets derived from 88 expressed sequence tags (ESTs) (Delsuc et al., 2006; Delsuc et al., 2005; Lartillot and 89 Philippe, 2008; Philippe et al.,…”
Constraints on the timescale of animal evolutionary history (2015, background): “Traditionally, hemichordates were paired with chordates to the exclusion of echinoderms, but the consensus of morphological and molecular studies (e.g., Eernisse and Peterson, 2004; Delsuc et al., 2006; Swalla and Smith, 2008; Cannon et al., 2009; Edgecombe et al., 2011; Röttinger and Lowe, 2012) no”
Detecting and overcoming systematic errors in genome-scale phylogenies. (2007, background): “The use of large multigene data sets to infer phylogenetic trees (phylogenomics) has been successfully applied to resolve evolutionary questions for which single-gene phylogenies failed (Bapteste et al., 2002; Delsuc et al., 2005, 2006; Madsen et al., 2001; Murphy et al., 2001; Philippe et al., 20”
Pitfalls in supermatrix phylogenomics (2017, neutral): “This view was clearly valid and numerous subsequent studies have yielded phylogenies with much better statistical support (e.g., Delsuc et al. 2006; Hampl et al. 2009; Jarvis et al. 2014).”