Animal mesoderm forms by enterocoelic pouching, through invagination of the endoderm. The main deuterostome phyla are the Echinodermata and the Chordata. Echinoderms are exclusively marine and include starfish, sea urchins, and sea cucumbers. The chordates are dominated by the vertebrates (animals with backbones), which consist of fishes, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals. The deuterostomes also include the Hemichordata (acorn worms). The Ecdysozoa are protostomes, named after their shared trait of ecdysis, growth by moulting. They include the largest animal phylum, the Arthropoda, which contains insects, spiders, crabs, and their kin. All of these have a body divided into repeating segments, typically
Branching order of bacterial phyla (Woese, 1987) was not based on molecular phylogeny. Eukaryotes are a mosaic of different lineages: Consequently, in Woese (1987) the group is referred to as urkaryote. The clade composed of Archaea and the nuclear genome of eukaryotes is called Neomura by T. Cavalier-Smith Branching order of bacterial phyla (Woese, 1987) There are several models of the Branching order of bacterial phyla, one of these was proposed in 1987 paper by Carl Woese. The branching order proposed by Carl Woese was based on molecular phylogeny, which was considered revolutionary as all preceding models were based on discussions of morphology. ("v." Monera). Several models