A stable phylogenomic classification of Travunioidea (Arachnida, Opiliones, Laniatores) based on sequence capture of ultraconserved elements

A fresh look over the genital morphology of Triaenonychoides (Opiliones: Laniatores: Triaenonychidae) unravelling for the first time the functional morphology of male genitalia

(2018) Abel Pérez-González et al.   ZOOLOGISCHER ANZEIGER

Step-wise evolution of complex chemical defenses in millipedes: a phylogenomic approach

(2018) Juanita Rodriguez et al.   Scientific Reports

Phylogenomic reclassification of the world’s most venomous spiders (Mygalomorphae, Atracinae), with implications for venom evolution

(2018) Marshal Hedin et al.   Scientific Reports

The Opiliones tree of life: shedding light on harvestmen relationships through transcriptomics

(2017) Rosa Fernández et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Resolving Relationships among the Megadiverse Butterflies and Moths with a Novel Pipeline for Anchored Phylogenomics

(2017) Jesse W. Breinholt et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Ultraconserved elements show utility in phylogenetic inference of Adephaga (Coleoptera) and suggest paraphyly of ‘Hydradephaga’

(2017) STEPHEN M. BACA et al.   SYSTEMATIC ENTOMOLOGY

Expanding anchored hybrid enrichment to resolve both deep and shallow relationships within the spider tree of life

(2016) Chris A. Hamilton et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

High phylogenetic utility of an ultraconserved element probe set designed for Arachnida

(2016) James Starrett et al.   Molecular Ecology Resources

A new monster from southwest Oregon forests: Cryptomaster behemoth sp. n. (Opiliones, Laniatores, Travunioidea)

(2016) James Starrett et al.   ZooKeys

Spider phylogenomics: untangling the Spider Tree of Life

(2016) Nicole L. Garrison et al.   PeerJ

Evolutionary Biology of Harvestmen (Arachnida, Opiliones)

(2015) Gonzalo Giribet et al.   Annual Review of Entomology

ASTRAL-II: coalescent-based species tree estimation with many hundreds of taxa and thousands of genes

(2015) Siavash Mirarab et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

PHYLUCE is a software package for the analysis of conserved genomic loci

(2015) Brant C. Faircloth   BIOINFORMATICS

Phylogenomic methods outperform traditional multi-locus approaches in resolving deep evolutionary history: a case study of formicine ants

(2015) Bonnie B. Blaimer et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Phylogeny and biogeography of the mite harvestmen (Arachnida : Opiliones : Cyphophthalmi) of Queensland, Australia, with a description of six new species from the rainforests of the Wet Tropics

(2015) Sarah L. Boyer et al.   INVERTEBRATE SYSTEMATICS

Molecular phylogeny, biogeographic history, and evolution of cave-dwelling taxa in the European harvestman genusIschyropsalis(Opiliones: Dyspnoi)

(2015) Axel L. Schönhofer et al.   JOURNAL OF ARACHNOLOGY

Identifiability of the unrooted species tree topology under the coalescent model with time-reversible substitution processes, site-specific rate variation, and invariable sites

(2015) Julia Chifman et al.   JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL BIOLOGY

Opiliones are no longer the same—on suprafamilial groups in harvestmen (Arthropoda: Arachnida)

(2015) ADRIANO B. KURY   ZOOTAXA

Quartet Inference from SNP Data Under the Coalescent Model

(2014) Julia Chifman et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

ASTRAL: genome-scale coalescent-based species tree estimation

(2014) S. Mirarab et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

RAxML version 8: a tool for phylogenetic analysis and post-analysis of large phylogenies

(2014) Alexandros Stamatakis   BIOINFORMATICS

Chemosystematics in the Opiliones (Arachnida): a comment on the evolutionary history of alkylphenols and benzoquinones in the scent gland secretions of Laniatores

(2014) Günther Raspotnig et al.   CLADISTICS

Chemical defenses in the opilionid infraorder Insidiatores: divergence in chemical defenses between Triaenonychidae and Travunioidea and within travunioid harvestmen (Opiliones) from eastern and western North America

(2014) W. A. Shear et al.   JOURNAL OF ARACHNOLOGY

Integrative Taxonomy and Species Delimitation in Harvestmen: A Revision of the Western North American Genus Sclerobunus (Opiliones: Laniatores: Travunioidea)

(2014) Shahan Derkarabetian et al.   PLoS One

BEAST 2: A Software Platform for Bayesian Evolutionary Analysis

(2014) Remco Bouckaert et al.   PLoS Computational Biology

A revised dated phylogeny of the arachnid order Opiliones

(2014) Prashant P. Sharma et al.   Frontiers in Genetics

MAFFT Multiple Sequence Alignment Software Version 7: Improvements in Performance and Usability

(2013) K. Katoh et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Order Opiliones Sundevall, 1833. In: Zhang, Z.-Q. (Ed.) Animal Biodiversity: An Outline of Higher-level Classification and Survey of Taxonomic Richness (Addenda 2013)

(2013) ADRIANO BRILHANTE KURY   ZOOTAXA

Geneious Basic: An integrated and extendable desktop software platform for the organization and analysis of sequence data

(2012) M. Kearse et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

PartitionFinder: Combined Selection of Partitioning Schemes and Substitution Models for Phylogenetic Analyses

(2012) R. Lanfear et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Molecular phylogeny of the harvestmen genus Sabacon (Arachnida: Opiliones: Dyspnoi) reveals multiple Eocene–Oligocene intercontinental dispersal events in the Holarctic

(2012) Axel L. Schönhofer et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Phylogenomic Resolution of Paleozoic Divergences in Harvestmen (Arachnida, Opiliones) via Analysis of Next-Generation Transcriptome Data

(2012) Marshal Hedin et al.   PLoS One

Evolutionary and biogeographical history of an ancient and global group of arachnids (Arachnida: Opiliones: Cyphophthalmi) with a new taxonomic arrangement

(2011) GONZALO GIRIBET et al.   BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

The evolutionary and biogeographic history of the armoured harvestmen - Laniatores phylogeny based on ten molecular markers, with the description of two new families of Opiliones (Arachnida)

(2011) Prashant P. Sharma et al.   INVERTEBRATE SYSTEMATICS

Genetic diversification without obvious genitalic morphological divergence in harvestmen (Opiliones, Laniatores, Sclerobunus robustus) from montane sky islands of western North America

(2011) Shahan Derkarabetian et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Molecular systematics of sclerosomatid harvestmen (Opiliones, Phalangioidea, Sclerosomatidae): Geography is better than taxonomy in predicting phylogeny

(2011) Marshal Hedin et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Full-length transcriptome assembly from RNA-Seq data without a reference genome

(2011) Manfred G Grabherr et al.   NATURE BIOTECHNOLOGY

Repeated and Time-Correlated Morphological Convergence in Cave-Dwelling Harvestmen (Opiliones, Laniatores) from Montane Western North America

(2010) Shahan Derkarabetian et al.   PLoS One

A multilocus approach to harvestman (Arachnida: Opiliones) phylogeny with emphasis on biogeography and the systematics of Laniatores

(2009) Gonzalo Giribet et al.   CLADISTICS

Caddo agilis and C. pepperella (Opiliones, Caddidae) diverged phylogenetically before acquiring their disjunct, sympatric distributions in Japan and North America

(2009) Jeffrey W. Shultz et al.   JOURNAL OF ARACHNOLOGY

Molecular systematics of eastern North American Phalangodidae (Arachnida: Opiliones: Laniatores), demonstrating convergent morphological evolution in caves

(2009) Marshal Hedin et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Velvet: Algorithms for de novo short read assembly using de Bruijn graphs

(2008) D. R. Zerbino et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

Multigenic phylogeographic divergence in the paleoendemic southern Appalachian opilionid Fumontana deprehendor Shear (Opiliones, Laniatores, Triaenonychidae)

(2007) Steven M. Thomas et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION