Turtle origins: insights from phylogenetic retrofitting and molecular scaffolds

Phylogenetic inference using discrete characters: performance of ordered and unordered parsimony and of three-item statements

(2013) Anaïs Grand et al.   BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Palaeontology: Turtles in Transition

(2013) Michael S.Y. Lee   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Evolutionary Origin of the Turtle Shell

(2013) Tyler R. Lyson et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

The draft genomes of soft-shell turtle and green sea turtle yield insights into the development and evolution of the turtle-specific body plan

(2013) Zhuo Wang et al.   NATURE GENETICS

The Placental Mammal Ancestor and the Post-K-Pg Radiation of Placentals

(2013) M. A. O'Leary et al.   SCIENCE

More than 1000 ultraconserved elements provide evidence that turtles are the sister group of archosaurs

(2012) N. G. Crawford et al.   Biology Letters

Amniote phylogeny and the position of turtles

(2012) S Blair Hedges   BMC BIOLOGY

Phylogenomic analyses support the position of turtles as the sister group of birds and crocodiles (Archosauria)

(2012) Ylenia Chiari et al.   BMC BIOLOGY

Cranial morphology of the Early Permian mesosaurid Mesosaurus tenuidens and the evolution of the lower temporal fenestration reassessed

(2012) Graciela Piñeiro et al.   COMPTES RENDUS PALEVOL

Anatomy ofEmeroleter levisand the phylogeny of the nycteroleter parareptiles

(2012) Linda A. Tsuji et al.   JOURNAL OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY

MrBayes 3.2: Efficient Bayesian Phylogenetic Inference and Model Choice Across a Large Model Space

(2012) Fredrik Ronquist et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Samrukia nessovi, from the Late Cretaceous of Kazakhstan: A large pterosaur, not a giant bird

(2011) Eric Buffetaut   ANNALES DE PALEONTOLOGIE

A gigantic bird from the Upper Cretaceous of Central Asia

(2011) D. Naish et al.   Biology Letters

Amniotes through major biological crises: faunal turnover among Parareptiles and the end-Permian mass extinction

(2011) MARCELLO RUTA et al.   PALAEONTOLOGY

Transitional fossils and the origin of turtles

(2010) T. R. Lyson et al.   Biology Letters

Improving Marginal Likelihood Estimation for Bayesian Phylogenetic Model Selection

(2010) Wangang Xie et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

A new parareptile with temporal fenestration from the Middle Permian of South Africa

(2009) Sean P. Modesto et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF EARTH SCIENCES

Turtle origins out to sea

(2008) Robert R. Reisz et al.   NATURE

An ancestral turtle from the Late Triassic of southwestern China

(2008) Chun Li et al.   NATURE