Additional file 14: Figure S12. of A reconstruction of sexual modes throughout animal evolution

Stochastic character mapping ancestral-state reconstruction for the “sponge-sister” topology with the gonochrositc Xenoturbella profunda replacing the hermaphrodite X. bocki. The inclusion of the gonochoristic X. profunda has an especially strong effect on the LCA of Bilateria. Blue circles indicate gonochorism, red circles hermaphroditism, and yellow circles asexuality. (PDF 157 kb)