Origins and early evolution of arthropods

At first sight Functional Analysis of Lower Cambrian Eye Systems

(2016) Brigitte Schoenemann et al.   PALAEONTOGRAPHICA ABTEILUNG A-PALAOZOOLOGIE-STRATIGRAPHIE

The affinities of the cosmopolitan arthropodIsoxysand its implications for the origin of arthropods

(2015) David A. Legg et al.   LETHAIA

Morphology of Anomalocaris canadensis from the Burgess Shale

(2014) Allison C. Daley et al.   JOURNAL OF PALEONTOLOGY

A Silurian short-great-appendage arthropod

(2014) D. J. Siveter et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Selective neuronal staining in tardigrades and onychophorans provides insights into the evolution of segmental ganglia in panarthropods

(2013) Georg Mayer et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Arthroaspis n. gen., a common element of the Sirius Passet Lagerstätte (Cambrian, North Greenland), sheds light on trilobite ancestry

(2013) Martin Stein et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Testing the phylogenetic position of Cambrian pancrustacean larval fossils by coding ontogenetic stages

(2013) Joanna M. Wolfe et al.   CLADISTICS

Molecular Timetrees Reveal a Cambrian Colonization of Land and a New Scenario for Ecdysozoan Evolution

(2013) Omar Rota-Stabelli et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Rates of Phenotypic and Genomic Evolution during the Cambrian Explosion

(2013) Michael S.Y. Lee et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

The fate of the onychophoran antenna

(2013) Thomas Frase et al.   DEVELOPMENT GENES AND EVOLUTION

The architecture of the nervous system of Echiniscus testudo (Echiniscoidea, Heterotardigrada)

(2013) Corinna Schulze et al.   JOURNAL OF LIMNOLOGY

Multi-Segmented Arthropods from the Middle Cambrian of British Columbia (Canada)

(2013) David Legg   JOURNAL OF PALEONTOLOGY

Morphology and systematics of the anomalocaridid arthropodHurdiafrom the Middle Cambrian of British Columbia and Utah

(2013) Allison C. Daley et al.   JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC PALAEONTOLOGY

Decisive Data Sets in Phylogenomics: Lessons from Studies on the Phylogenetic Relationships of Primarily Wingless Insects

(2013) Emiliano Dell’Ampio et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Specialized appendages in fuxianhuiids and the head organization of early euarthropods

(2013) Jie Yang et al.   NATURE

Chelicerate neural ground pattern in a Cambrian great appendage arthropod

(2013) Gengo Tanaka et al.   NATURE

Kodymirus and the case for convergence of raptorial appendages in Cambrian arthropods

(2013) James C. Lamsdell et al.   NATURWISSENSCHAFTEN

COPEPOD MANDIBLE PALYNOMORPHS FROM THE NOLICHUCKY SHALE (CAMBRIAN, TENNESSEE): IMPLICATIONS FOR THE TAPHONOMY AND RECOVERY OF SMALL CARBONACEOUS FOSSILS

(2013) T. H. P. HARVEY et al.   PALAIOS

Neural Markers Reveal a One-Segmented Head in Tardigrades (Water Bears)

(2013) Georg Mayer et al.   PLoS One

Beyond the Burgess Shale: Cambrian microfossils track the rise and fall of hallucigeniid lobopodians

(2013) J.-B. Caron et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The genome of Mesobuthus martensii reveals a unique adaptation model of arthropods

(2013) Zhijian Cao et al.   Nature Communications

Arthropod fossil data increase congruence of morphological and molecular phylogenies

(2013) David A. Legg et al.   Nature Communications

Morphology of Cambrian lobopodian eyes from the Chengjiang Lagerstätte and their evolutionary significance

(2012) Xiaoya Ma et al.   ARTHROPOD STRUCTURE & DEVELOPMENT

Neuroanatomy ofHalobiotus crispae(Eutardigrada: Hypsibiidae): Tardigrade brain structure supports the clade panarthropoda

(2012) Dennis K. Persson et al.   JOURNAL OF MORPHOLOGY

Phylotranscriptomics to Bring the Understudied into the Fold: Monophyletic Ostracoda, Fossil Placement, and Pancrustacean Phylogeny

(2012) Todd H. Oakley et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Complex brain and optic lobes in an early Cambrian arthropod

(2012) Xiaoya Ma et al.   NATURE

Resolving Discrepancy between Nucleotides and Amino Acids in Deep-Level Arthropod Phylogenomics: Differentiating Serine Codons in 21-Amino-Acid Models

(2012) Andreas Zwick et al.   PLoS One

Exceptionally preserved crustaceans from western Canada reveal a cryptic Cambrian radiation

(2012) T. H. P. Harvey et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Cambrian bivalved arthropod reveals origin of arthrodization

(2012) D. A. Legg et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Serine Codon-Usage Bias in Deep Phylogenomics: Pancrustacean Relationships as a Case Study

(2012) Omar Rota-Stabelli et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Phylogenomic Insights into the Cambrian Explosion, the Colonization of Land and the Evolution of Flight in Arthropoda

(2012) Christopher W. Wheat et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Cambrian lobopodians and extant onychophorans provide new insights into early cephalization in Panarthropoda

(2012) Qiang Ou et al.   Nature Communications

A New Leanchoiliid Megacheiran Arthropod from the Lower Cambrian Emu Bay Shale, South Australia

(2011) Gregory D. Edgecombe et al.   ACTA PALAEONTOLOGICA POLONICA

Reevaluating the Arthropod Tree of Life

(2011) Gonzalo Giribet et al.   Annual Review of Entomology

A new view of insect–crustacean relationships II. Inferences from expressed sequence tags and comparisons with neural cladistics

(2011) David R. Andrew   ARTHROPOD STRUCTURE & DEVELOPMENT

A rare onychophoran-like lobopodian from the Lower Cambrian Chengjiang Lagerstätte, southwestern China, and its phylogenetic implications

(2011) Qiang Ou et al.   JOURNAL OF PALEONTOLOGY

Pancrustacean Phylogeny in the Light of New Phylogenomic Data: Support for Remipedia as the Possible Sister Group of Hexapoda

(2011) B. M. von Reumont et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Dating the arthropod tree based on large-scale transcriptome data

(2011) Peter Rehm et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Phylogenetic position of Diania challenged

(2011) Ross C. P. Mounce et al.   NATURE

Lobopodian phylogeny reanalysed

(2011) David A. Legg et al.   NATURE

An armoured Cambrian lobopodian from China with arthropod-like appendages

(2011) Jianni Liu et al.   NATURE

Acute vision in the giant Cambrian predator Anomalocaris and the origin of compound eyes

(2011) John R. Paterson et al.   NATURE

Functional morphology, ontogeny and evolution of mantis shrimp-like predators in the Cambrian

(2011) JOACHIM T. HAUG et al.   PALAEONTOLOGY

Sources of Signal in 62 Protein-Coding Nuclear Genes for Higher-Level Phylogenetics of Arthropods

(2011) Jerome C. Regier et al.   PLoS One

MicroRNAs and phylogenomics resolve the relationships of Tardigrada and suggest that velvet worms are the sister group of Arthropoda

(2011) L. I. Campbell et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

High-level phylogenetic analysis using developmental sequences: The Cambrian †Martinssonia elongata, †Musacaris gerdgeyeri gen. et sp. nov. and their position in early crustacean evolution

(2010) Joachim T. Haug et al.   ARTHROPOD STRUCTURE & DEVELOPMENT

A revision of brain composition in Onychophora (velvet worms) suggests that the tritocerebrum evolved in arthropods

(2010) Georg Mayer et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

A Eucrustacean Metanauplius from the Lower Cambrian

(2010) Xi-guang Zhang et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Head patterning and Hox gene expression in an onychophoran and its implications for the arthropod head problem

(2010) Bo Joakim Eriksson et al.   DEVELOPMENT GENES AND EVOLUTION

† Henningsmoenicaris scutula, † Sandtorpia vestrogothiensis gen. et sp. nov. and heterochronic events in early crustacean evolution

(2010) Joachim T. Haug et al.   Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh

A Phylogenomic Approach to Resolve the Arthropod Tree of Life

(2010) K. Meusemann et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Arthropod relationships revealed by phylogenomic analysis of nuclear protein-coding sequences

(2010) Jerome C. Regier et al.   NATURE

A congruent solution to arthropod phylogeny: phylogenomics, microRNAs and morphology support monophyletic Mandibulata

(2010) O. Rota-Stabelli et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Palaeomorphology: fossils and the inference of cladistic relationships

(2009) Gregory D. Edgecombe   ACTA ZOOLOGICA

Arthropod phylogeny: An overview from the perspectives of morphology, molecular data and the fossil record

(2009) Gregory D. Edgecombe   ARTHROPOD STRUCTURE & DEVELOPMENT

The origin and evolution of arthropods

(2009) Graham E. Budd et al.   NATURE

A Great-Appendage Arthropod with a Radial Mouth from the Lower Devonian Hunsruck Slate, Germany

(2009) G. Kuhl et al.   SCIENCE

The Burgess Shale Anomalocaridid Hurdia and Its Significance for Early Euarthropod Evolution

(2009) A. C. Daley et al.   SCIENCE

Sophisticated particle-feeding in a large Early Cambrian crustacean

(2008) Thomas H. P. Harvey et al.   NATURE

Broad phylogenomic sampling improves resolution of the animal tree of life

(2008) Casey W. Dunn et al.   NATURE

HEAD STRUCTURE IN UPPER STEM-GROUP EUARTHROPODS

(2008) GRAHAM E. BUDD   PALAEONTOLOGY

The Ediacaran emergence of bilaterians: congruence between the genetic and the geological fossil records

(2008) K. J Peterson et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES