Current Understanding of Ecdysozoa and its Internal Phylogenetic Relationships

Inferring Arthropod Phylogeny: Fossils and their Interaction with Other Data Sources

(2017) Gregory D. Edgecombe   INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY

Rotiferan Hox genes give new insights into the evolution of metazoan bodyplans

(2017) Andreas C. Fröbius et al.   Nature Communications

Massively parallel digital transcriptional profiling of single cells

(2017) Grace X. Y. Zheng et al.   Nature Communications

Exceptionally preserved Cambrian loriciferans and the early animal invasion of the meiobenthos

(2017) Thomas H. P. Harvey et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

The challenge of proving the existence of metazoan life in permanently anoxic deep-sea sediments

(2016) Roberto Danovaro et al.   BMC BIOLOGY

Complete Mitochondrial Genome of a Tongue Worm Armillifer agkistrodontis

(2016) Jian Li et al.   KOREAN JOURNAL OF PARASITOLOGY

The mouth apparatus of the Cambrian gilled lobopodianPambdelurion whittingtoni

(2016) Jakob Vinther et al.   PALAEONTOLOGY

A molecular palaeobiological exploration of arthropod terrestrialization

(2016) Jesus Lozano-Fernandez et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Mitochondrial Genomes of Kinorhyncha: trnM Duplication and New Gene Orders within Animals

(2016) Olga V. Popova et al.   PLoS One

No evidence for extensive horizontal gene transfer in the genome of the tardigradeHypsibius dujardini

(2016) Georgios Koutsovoulos et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Exploring Phylogenetic Relationships within Myriapoda and the Effects of Matrix Composition and Occupancy on Phylogenomic Reconstruction

(2016) Rosa Fernández et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Genomics and the animal tree of life: conflicts and future prospects

(2016) Gonzalo Giribet   ZOOLOGICA SCRIPTA

The presence of α-chitin in Tardigrada with comments on chitin in the Ecdysozoa

(2016) Hartmut Greven et al.   ZOOLOGISCHER ANZEIGER

Extremotolerant tardigrade genome and improved radiotolerance of human cultured cells by tardigrade-unique protein

(2016) Takuma Hashimoto et al.   Nature Communications

The study of Priapulus caudatus reveals conserved molecular patterning underlying different gut morphogenesis in the Ecdysozoa

(2015) José M Martín-Durán et al.   BMC BIOLOGY

Spiralian Phylogeny Informs the Evolution of Microscopic Lineages

(2015) Christopher E. Laumer et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

The evolution of animal genomes

(2015) Casey W Dunn et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN GENETICS & DEVELOPMENT

Aspects of dorso-ventral and proximo-distal limb patterning in onychophorans

(2015) Ralf Janssen et al.   EVOLUTION & DEVELOPMENT

Phylogenetic analysis and expression patterns of Pax genes in the onychophoranEuperipatoides rowellireveal a novel bilaterian Pax subfamily

(2015) Franziska Anni Franke et al.   EVOLUTION & DEVELOPMENT

Hallucigenia’s head and the pharyngeal armature of early ecdysozoans

(2015) Martin R. Smith et al.   NATURE

The plant parasite Pratylenchus coffeaecarries a minimal nematode genome

(2015) Mark Burke et al.   NEMATOLOGY

New animal phylogeny: future challenges for animal phylogeny in the age of phylogenomics

(2015) Gonzalo Giribet   ORGANISMS DIVERSITY & EVOLUTION

The larval nervous system of the penis wormPriapulus caudatus(Ecdysozoa)

(2015) José M. Martín-Durán et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Evidence for extensive horizontal gene transfer from the draft genome of a tardigrade

(2015) Thomas C. Boothby et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A superarmored lobopodian from the Cambrian of China and early disparity in the evolution of Onychophora

(2015) Jie Yang et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Armored kinorhynch-like scalidophoran animals from the early Cambrian

(2015) Huaqiao Zhang et al.   Scientific Reports

Neural development in the tardigrade Hypsibius dujardini based on anti-acetylated α-tubulin immunolabeling

(2015) Vladimir Gross et al.   EvoDevo

Animal Phylogeny and Its Evolutionary Implications

(2014) Casey W. Dunn et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Making sense of ‘lower’ and ‘upper’ stem-group Euarthropoda, with comments on the strict use of the name Arthropoda von Siebold, 1848

(2014) Javier Ortega-Hernández   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

The oldest known priapulid-like scalidophoran animal and its implications for the early evolution of cycloneuralians and ecdysozoans

(2014) Yunhuan Liu et al.   EVOLUTION & DEVELOPMENT

A New Exceptionally Preserved Cambrian Priapulid from the Chengjiang Lagerstätte

(2014) Xiaoya Ma et al.   JOURNAL OF PALEONTOLOGY

Evaluating Topological Conflict in Centipede Phylogeny Using Transcriptomic Data Sets

(2014) Rosa Fernández et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Phylogenomic Interrogation of Arachnida Reveals Systemic Conflicts in Phylogenetic Signal

(2014) Prashant P. Sharma et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

A transcriptome approach to ecdysozoan phylogeny

(2014) Janus Borner et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Hallucigenia’s onychophoran-like claws and the case for Tactopoda

(2014) Martin R. Smith et al.   NATURE

Towards Decrypting Cryptobiosis—Analyzing Anhydrobiosis in the Tardigrade Milnesium tardigradum Using Transcriptome Sequencing

(2014) Chong Wang et al.   PLoS One

Phylogenomics resolves the timing and pattern of insect evolution

(2014) B. Misof et al.   SCIENCE

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

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

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

The disparity of priapulid, archaeopriapulid and palaeoscolecid worms in the light of new data

(2012) M. A. Wills et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

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

Gut Contents as Direct Indicators for Trophic Relationships in the Cambrian Marine Ecosystem

(2012) Jean Vannier   PLoS One

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

(2012) Qiang Ou et al.   Nature Communications

Extensive and Evolutionarily Persistent Mitochondrial tRNA Editing in Velvet Worms (Phylum Onychophora)

(2011) Romulo Segovia et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

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

The first metazoa living in permanently anoxic conditions

(2010) Roberto Danovaro et al.   BMC BIOLOGY

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

(2010) Georg Mayer et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Are palaeoscolecids ancestral ecdysozoans?

(2010) Thomas H. P. Harvey et al.   EVOLUTION & DEVELOPMENT

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

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

Extensive duplication events account for multiple control regions and pseudo-genes in the mitochondrial genome of the velvet worm Metaperipatus inae (Onychophora, Peripatopsidae)

(2010) Anke Braband et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

The mitochondrial genome of the onychophoran Opisthopatus cinctipes (Peripatopsidae) reflects the ancestral mitochondrial gene arrangement of Panarthropoda and Ecdysozoa

(2010) Anke Braband et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

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

(2010) Jerome C. Regier et al.   NATURE

Proteomic Analysis of Tardigrades: Towards a Better Understanding of Molecular Mechanisms by Anhydrobiotic Organisms

(2010) Elham Schokraie et al.   PLoS One

Gene expression suggests conserved aspects of Hox gene regulation in arthropods and provides additional support for monophyletic Myriapoda

(2010) Ralf Janssen et al.   EvoDevo

Bilaterian Phylogeny: A Broad Sampling of 13 Nuclear Genes Provides a New Lophotrochozoa Phylogeny and Supports a Paraphyletic Basal Acoelomorpha

(2009) J. Paps et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Assessing the root of bilaterian animals with scalable phylogenomic methods

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

New data from an enigmatic phylum: evidence from molecular sequence data supports a sister-group relationship between Loricifera and Nematomorpha

(2008) M. V. Srensen et al.   JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGICAL SYSTEMATICS AND EVOLUTIONARY RESEARCH

Broad phylogenomic sampling improves resolution of the animal tree of life

(2008) Casey W. Dunn et al.   NATURE