Chelicerates and the Conquest of Land: A View of Arachnid Origins Through an Evo-Devo Spyglass

A new mid-Silurian aquatic scorpion--one step closer to land?

(2015) J. Waddington et al.   Biology Letters

Evidence of duplicated Hox genes in the most recent common ancestor of extant scorpions

(2015) Prashant P. Sharma et al.   EVOLUTION & DEVELOPMENT

Phylogenomic Interrogation of Arachnida Reveals Systemic Conflicts in Phylogenetic Signal

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

Sanctacaris uncata: the oldest chelicerate (Arthropoda)

(2014) David A. Legg   NATURWISSENSCHAFTEN

Hox gene duplications correlate with posterior heteronomy in scorpions

(2014) P. P. Sharma et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

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

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

Common Origin of Insect Trachea and Endocrine Organs from a Segmentally Repeated Precursor

(2013) Carlos Sánchez-Higueras et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Posterior Hox gene reduction in an arthropod: Ultrabithorax and Abdominal-B are expressed in a single segment in the mite Archegozetes longisetosus

(2013) Austen A Barnett et al.   EvoDevo

Evolution of the chelicera: adachshunddomain is retained in the deutocerebral appendage of Opiliones (Arthropoda, Chelicerata)

(2012) Prashant P. Sharma et al.   EVOLUTION & DEVELOPMENT

Hox gene expression in the harvestman Phalangium opilio reveals divergent patterning of the chelicerate opisthosoma

(2012) Prashant P. Sharma et al.   EVOLUTION & DEVELOPMENT

Ultrastructure of book gill development in embryos and first instars of the horseshoe crab Limulus polyphemus L. (Chelicerata, Xiphosura)

(2012) Roger D Farley   Frontiers in Zoology

Divergent role of the Hox gene Antennapedia in spiders is responsible for the convergent evolution of abdominal limb repression

(2012) S. Khadjeh et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Silurian horseshoe crab illuminates the evolution of arthropod limbs

(2012) D. E. G. Briggs et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Pancrustacean Phylogeny in the Light of New Phylogenomic Data: Support for Remipedia as the Possible Sister Group of Hexapoda

(2011) B. M. von Reumont et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Resolving the evolutionary relationships of molluscs with phylogenomic tools

(2011) Stephen A. Smith et al.   NATURE

Phylogenomics reveals deep molluscan relationships

(2011) Kevin M. Kocot et al.   NATURE

Phylogenomic analyses unravel annelid evolution

(2011) Torsten H. Struck et al.   NATURE

Novel Function of Distal-less as a Gap Gene during Spider Segmentation

(2011) Matthias Pechmann et al.   PLoS Genetics

Patterning mechanisms and morphological diversity of spider appendages and their importance for spider evolution

(2010) Matthias Pechmann et al.   ARTHROPOD STRUCTURE & DEVELOPMENT

Geological history and phylogeny of Chelicerata

(2010) Jason A. Dunlop   ARTHROPOD STRUCTURE & DEVELOPMENT

Evolutionary origin of the insect wing via integration of two developmental modules

(2010) Nao Niwa et al.   EVOLUTION & DEVELOPMENT

Respiration in trilobites: A reevaluation

(2010) Yutaro Suzuki et al.   GFF

Non-Redundant Selector and Growth-Promoting Functions of Two Sister Genes, buttonhead and Sp1, in Drosophila Leg Development

(2010) Carlos Estella et al.   PLoS Genetics

Appendage patterning in the South American bird spider Acanthoscurria geniculata (Araneae: Mygalomorphae)

(2009) Matthias Pechmann et al.   DEVELOPMENT GENES AND EVOLUTION

The clonal composition of biramous and uniramous arthropod limbs

(2008) C. Wolff et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES