Development of the turtle plastron, the order-defining skeletal structure

Emerging from the rib: Resolving the turtle controversies

(2015) Ritva Rice et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL ZOOLOGY PART B-MOLECULAR AND DEVELOPMENTAL EVOLUTION

A Middle Triassic stem-turtle and the evolution of the turtle body plan

(2015) Rainer R. Schoch et al.   NATURE

Homology of the enigmatic nuchal bone reveals novel reorganization of the shoulder girdle in the evolution of the turtle shell

(2015) Tyler R. Lyson et al.   EVOLUTION & DEVELOPMENT

Toward consilience in reptile phylogeny: miRNAs support an archosaur, not lepidosaur, affinity for turtles

(2014) Daniel J. Field et al.   EVOLUTION & DEVELOPMENT

Evolutionary Origin of the Turtle Shell

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

Late-emigrating trunk neural crest cells in turtle embryos generate an osteogenic ectomesenchyme in the plastron

(2013) Judith A. Cebra-Thomas et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL DYNAMICS

The Embryonic Transcriptome of the Red-Eared Slider Turtle (Trachemys scripta)

(2013) Nicholas J. Kaplinsky et al.   PLoS One

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

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

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

(2012) Ylenia Chiari et al.   BMC BIOLOGY

A Phylogenomic Approach to Vertebrate Phylogeny Supports a Turtle-Archosaur Affinity and a Possible Paraphyletic Lissamphibia

(2012) Jonathan J. Fong et al.   PLoS One

Early onset of Runx2 expression caused craniosynostosis, ectopic bone formation, and limb defects

(2011) Takafumi Maeno et al.   BONE

Runx1 and Runx2 cooperate during sternal morphogenesis

(2010) A. Kimura et al.   DEVELOPMENT

Development of the carapacial ridge: implications for the evolution of genetic networks in turtle shell development

(2010) Jacqueline E. Moustakas   EVOLUTION & DEVELOPMENT

SOX9 determines RUNX2 transactivity by directing intracellular degradation

(2010) Aixin Cheng et al.   JOURNAL OF BONE AND MINERAL RESEARCH

Embryogenesis and ossification ofEmydura subglobosa(Testudines, Pleurodira, Chelidae) and patterns of turtle development

(2009) Ingmar Werneburg et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL DYNAMICS

MicroCT for developmental biology: A versatile tool for high-contrast 3D imaging at histological resolutions

(2009) Brian D. Metscher   DEVELOPMENTAL DYNAMICS

The integumentary skeleton of tetrapods: origin, evolution, and development

(2009) Matthew K. Vickaryous et al.   JOURNAL OF ANATOMY

Skeletal development in the Chinese soft-shelled turtlePelodiscus sinensis(Testudines: Trionychidae)

(2009) Marcelo R. Sánchez-Villagra et al.   JOURNAL OF MORPHOLOGY

Evolution of the Turtle Body Plan by the Folding and Creation of New Muscle Connections

(2009) H. Nagashima et al.   SCIENCE

Ontogeny of the Plastron of the Giant Amazon River Turtle,Podocnemis expanse(Schweigger, 1812) (Testudines, Podocnemididae)

(2009) Lucélia Gonçalves Vieira et al.   ZOOLOGICAL SCIENCE

An ancestral turtle from the Late Triassic of southwestern China

(2008) Chun Li et al.   NATURE