The Mitochondrial Genomes of Nuttalliella namaqua (Ixodoidea: Nuttalliellidae) and Argas africolumbae (Ixodoidae: Argasidae): Estimation of Divergence Dates for the Major Tick Lineages and Reconstruction of Ancestral Blood-Feeding Characters

The sialotranscriptome of Antricola delacruzi female ticks is compatible with non-hematophagous behavior and an alternative source of food

(2012) José Marcos C. Ribeiro et al.   INSECT BIOCHEMISTRY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Phylogenetic analysis of ticks (Acari: Ixodida) using mitochondrial genomes and nuclear rRNA genes indicates that the genus Amblyomma is polyphyletic

(2012) Thomas D. Burger et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Nuttalliella namaqua (Ixodoidea: Nuttalliellidae): First Description of the Male, Immature Stages and Re-Description of the Female

(2012) Abdalla A. Latif et al.   PLoS One

Reevaluating the Arthropod Tree of Life

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

What is the phylogenetic signal limit from mitogenomes? The reconciliation between mitochondrial and nuclear data in the Insecta class phylogeny

(2011) Gerard Talavera et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

MEGA5: Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis Using Maximum Likelihood, Evolutionary Distance, and Maximum Parsimony Methods

(2011) K. Tamura 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

A Jurassic eutherian mammal and divergence of marsupials and placentals

(2011) Zhe-Xi Luo et al.   NATURE

Nuttalliella namaqua: A Living Fossil and Closest Relative to the Ancestral Tick Lineage: Implications for the Evolution of Blood-Feeding in Ticks

(2011) Ben J. Mans et al.   PLoS One

Compluriscutula vetulum (Acari: Ixodida: Ixodidae), A New Genus And Species of Hard Tick from Lower Cretaceous Burmese Amber

(2011) George O. Poinar et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON

Geological history and phylogeny of Chelicerata

(2010) Jason A. Dunlop   ARTHROPOD STRUCTURE & DEVELOPMENT

The expression of genes coding for distinct types of glycine-rich proteins varies according to the biology of three metastriate ticks, Rhipicephalus (Boophilus) microplus, Rhipicephalus sanguineus and Amblyomma cajennense

(2010) Sandra R Maruyama et al.   BMC GENOMICS

The origin and early radiation of dinosaurs

(2010) Stephen L. Brusatte et al.   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

Evolution of Vertebrate Hemostatic and Inflammatory Control Mechanisms in Blood-Feeding Arthropods

(2010) Ben J. Mans   Journal of Innate Immunity

A Phylogenomic Approach to Resolve the Arthropod Tree of Life

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

A review of the systematics of the tick family Argasidae (Ixodida)

(2010) A. Estrada-Pena et al.   ACAROLOGIA

PhyloBayes 3: a Bayesian software package for phylogenetic reconstruction and molecular dating

(2009) Nicolas Lartillot et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

An overview of systematics and evolution of ticks

(2009) Santiago Nava   Frontiers in Bioscience-Landmark

Heme-binding storage proteins in the Chelicerata

(2009) Kevin V. Donohue et al.   JOURNAL OF INSECT PHYSIOLOGY

Bovine immunity – a driver for diversity in Theileria parasites?

(2009) Declan J. McKeever   TRENDS IN PARASITOLOGY

Improved accuracy of multiple ncRNA alignment by incorporating structural information into a MAFFT-based framework

(2008) Kazutaka Katoh et al.   BMC BIOINFORMATICS

First divergence time estimate of spiders, scorpions, mites and ticks (subphylum: Chelicerata) inferred from mitochondrial phylogeny

(2008) Ayyamperumal Jeyaprakash et al.   EXPERIMENTAL AND APPLIED ACAROLOGY

Recovery from the most profound mass extinction of all time

(2008) S. Sahney et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES