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

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

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

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

(2012) Qiang Ou et al.   Nature Communications

Survival in extreme environments - on the current knowledge of adaptations in tardigrades

(2011) N. Møbjerg et al.   Acta Physiologica

The origins of the arthropod nervous system: Insights from the Onychophora

(2011) Paul M. Whitington et al.   ARTHROPOD STRUCTURE & DEVELOPMENT

Dating the arthropod tree based on large-scale transcriptome data

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

Cryptic Speciation in Brazilian Epiperipatus (Onychophora: Peripatidae) Reveals an Underestimated Diversity among the Peripatid Velvet Worms

(2011) Ivo S. Oliveira 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

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

(2010) Georg Mayer et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY 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

Invertebrate neurophylogeny: suggested terms and definitions for a neuroanatomical glossary

(2010) Stefan Richter et al.   Frontiers in Zoology

Ecdysozoan Mitogenomics: Evidence for a Common Origin of the Legged Invertebrates, the Panarthropoda

(2010) Omar Rota-Stabelli et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

Immunohistochemical analysis and 3D reconstruction of the cephalic nervous system in Chaetognatha: insights into the evolution of an early bilaterian brain?

(2010) Verena Rieger et al.   INVERTEBRATE BIOLOGY

The tritocerebrum and the clypeolabrum in mandibulate arthropods: segmental interpretations

(2009) Jacques Bitsch et al.   ACTA ZOOLOGICA

Morphology of Luolishania longicruris (Lower Cambrian, Chengjiang Lagerstätte, SW China) and the phylogenetic relationships within lobopodians

(2009) Xiaoya Ma et al.   ARTHROPOD STRUCTURE & DEVELOPMENT

Neural development in Onychophora (velvet worms) suggests a step-wise evolution of segmentation in the nervous system of Panarthropoda

(2009) Georg Mayer et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

Myoanatomy of the marine tardigradeHalobiotus crispae(Eutardigrada: Hypsibiidae)

(2009) Kenneth Agerlin Halberg et al.   JOURNAL OF MORPHOLOGY

A 454 sequencing approach for large scale phylogenomic analysis of the common emperor scorpion (Pandinus imperator)

(2009) Falko Roeding et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Nearly complete rRNA genes assembled from across the metazoan animals: Effects of more taxa, a structure-based alignment, and paired-sites evolutionary models on phylogeny reconstruction

(2009) Jon Mallatt et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Velvet worm development links myriapods with chelicerates

(2009) G. Mayer et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Distribution of serotonin in the trunk ofMetaperipatus blainvillei (Onychophora, Peripatopsidae): Implications for the evolution of the nervous system in Arhropoda

(2008) Georg Mayer et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE NEUROLOGY

Acoel development indicates the independent evolution of the bilaterian mouth and anus

(2008) Andreas Hejnol et al.   NATURE

Broad phylogenomic sampling improves resolution of the animal tree of life

(2008) Casey W. Dunn et al.   NATURE

The evolution of the Ecdysozoa

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

Improvement of molecular phylogenetic inference and the phylogeny of Bilateria

(2008) N. Lartillot et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES