A molecular palaeobiological hypothesis for the origin of aplacophoran molluscs and their derivation from chiton-like ancestors

Molecular paleobiological insights into the origin of the Brachiopoda

(2011) Erik A. Sperling et al.   EVOLUTION & DEVELOPMENT

Phylogenomics reveals deep molluscan relationships

(2011) Kevin M. Kocot et al.   NATURE

Fast evolving 18S rRNA sequences from Solenogastres (Mollusca) resist standard PCR amplification and give new insights into mollusk substitution rate heterogeneity

(2010) Achim Meyer et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Of tests, trochs, shells, and spicules: Development of the basal mollusk Wirenia argentea (Solenogastres) and its bearing on the evolution of trochozoan larval key features

(2010) Christiane Todt et al.   Frontiers in Zoology

The earliest Cambrian record of animals and ocean geochemical change

(2010) A. C. Maloof et al.   GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA BULLETIN

Crinoids for lunch? An unexpected biotic interaction from the Upper Ordovician of Scotland

(2010) Stephen K. Donovan et al.   GEOLOGY

Selecting ribosomal protein genes for invertebrate phylogenetic inferences: how many genes to resolve the Mollusca?

(2010) Achim Meyer et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Morphological Cladistic Analysis as a Model for Character Evaluation in Primitive Living Chitons (Polyplacophora, Lepidopleurina)*

(2009) Julia D. Sigwart   AMERICAN MALACOLOGICAL BULLETIN

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

(2009) Nicolas Lartillot et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

The deep evolution of metazoan microRNAs

(2009) Benjamin M. Wheeler et al.   EVOLUTION & DEVELOPMENT

Where's the glass? Biomarkers, molecular clocks, and microRNAs suggest a 200-Myr missing Precambrian fossil record of siliceous sponge spicules

(2009) E. A. SPERLING et al.   Geobiology

Phylogenetic-Signal Dissection of Nuclear Housekeeping Genes Supports the Paraphyly of Sponges and the Monophyly of Eumetazoa

(2009) E. A. Sperling et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Assessing the molluscan hypothesis Serialia (Monoplacophora+Polyplacophora) using novel molecular data

(2009) Nerida G. Wilson et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

New data on the enigmaticOcruranus-Eohalobiagroup of Early Cambrian small skeletal fossils

(2009) MICHAEL J. VENDRASCO et al.   PALAEONTOLOGY

THE CANAL SYSTEM IN SCLERITES OF LOWER CAMBRIANSINOSACHITES(HALKIERIIDAE: SACHITIDA): SIGNIFICANCE FOR THE MOLLUSCAN AFFINITIES OF THE SACHITIDS

(2009) JAKOB VINTHER   PALAEONTOLOGY

New reconstruction of Kimberella, problematic Vendian metazoan

(2009) A. Yu. Ivantsov   PALEONTOLOGICAL JOURNAL

Assessing the root of bilaterian animals with scalable phylogenomic methods

(2009) A. Hejnol et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Hemocyanin in mollusks—A molecular survey and new data on hemocyanin genes in Solenogastres and Caudofoveata☆

(2008) B LIEB et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

A multi criterion approach for the selection of optimal outgroups in phylogeny: Recovering some support for Mandibulata over Myriochelata using mitogenomics

(2008) Omar Rota-Stabelli et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Machaeridians are Palaeozoic armoured annelids

(2008) Jakob Vinther et al.   NATURE

Broad phylogenomic sampling improves resolution of the animal tree of life

(2008) Casey W. Dunn et al.   NATURE

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