Over the past 25 years, our research has been funded by a range of funders including BBSRC, MRC, NERC, the Wellcome Trust, the European Union, HFSP, EPA Fund, the British Council and the Royal Society, plus scholarship and fellowship funding from many sources including JSPS, HFSP, A*STAR, EMBO, Chinese Academy of Science and the John Fell Fund. A major funder of our research from 2011 to 2016 was the European Research Council through an ERC Advanced Grant entitled ‘Genome Evolution in the Animal Kingdom’. Current research is funded by the Leverhulme Trust and CRUK, studentship funding from BBSRC, and the Wellcome Trust as part of the Darwin Tree of Life project (https://www.darwintreeoflife.org/)