Capture of Prey, Feeding, and Functional Anatomy of the Jaws in Velvet Worms (Onychophora)

Decay of velvet worms (Onychophora), and bias in the fossil record of lobopodians

(2014) Duncan JE Murdock et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

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

(2014) Martin R. Smith et al.   NATURE

Neuronal tracing of oral nerves in a velvet worm—Implications for the evolution of the ecdysozoan brain

(2014) Christine Martin et al.   Frontiers in Neuroanatomy

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

The triradiate sucking pharynx in animal phylogeny

(2013) Claus Nielsen   INVERTEBRATE BIOLOGY

Apodemes associated with limbs support serial homology of claws and jaws in onychophora (velvet worms)

(2013) Ivo de Sena Oliveira et al.   JOURNAL OF MORPHOLOGY

Cambrian lobopodians: A review of recent progress in our understanding of their morphology and evolution

(2013) Jianni Liu et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Neural Markers Reveal a One-Segmented Head in Tardigrades (Water Bears)

(2013) Georg Mayer et al.   PLoS One

A Carboniferous Non-Onychophoran Lobopodian Reveals Long-Term Survival of a Cambrian Morphotype

(2012) Joachim T. Haug et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Comparative anatomy of slime glands in onychophora (velvet worms)

(2012) Alexander Baer et al.   JOURNAL OF MORPHOLOGY

Fiji: an open-source platform for biological-image analysis

(2012) Johannes Schindelin et al.   NATURE METHODS

Unexplored Character Diversity in Onychophora (Velvet Worms): A Comparative Study of Three Peripatid Species

(2012) Ivo de Sena Oliveira et al.   PLoS One

A world checklist of Onychophora (velvet worms), with notes on nomenclature and status of names

(2012) Ivo Oliveira et al.   ZooKeys

Form and function of the feeding apparatus in Eutardigrada (Tardigrada)

(2012) Roberto Guidetti et al.   ZOOMORPHOLOGY

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

(2012) Qiang Ou et al.   Nature Communications

The origins of the arthropod nervous system: Insights from the Onychophora

(2011) Paul M. Whitington et al.   ARTHROPOD STRUCTURE & DEVELOPMENT

An armoured Cambrian lobopodian from China with arthropod-like appendages

(2011) Jianni Liu et al.   NATURE

Cryptic Speciation in Brazilian Epiperipatus (Onychophora: Peripatidae) Reveals an Underestimated Diversity among the Peripatid Velvet Worms

(2011) Ivo S. Oliveira et al.   PLoS One

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

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

(2010) Georg Mayer et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Head patterning and Hox gene expression in an onychophoran and its implications for the arthropod head problem

(2010) Bo Joakim Eriksson et al.   DEVELOPMENT GENES AND EVOLUTION

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

Latest developments in microtomography and nanotomography at PETRA III

(2010) A. Haibel et al.   POWDER DIFFRACTION

Structure, composition and properties of naturally occurring non-calcified crustacean cuticle

(2009) B.W. Cribb et al.   ARTHROPOD STRUCTURE & DEVELOPMENT

Morphology of Luolishania longicruris (Lower Cambrian, Chengjiang Lagerstätte, SW China) and the phylogenetic relationships within lobopodians

(2009) Xiaoya Ma et al.   ARTHROPOD STRUCTURE & DEVELOPMENT

Neural development in Onychophora (velvet worms) suggests a step-wise evolution of segmentation in the nervous system of Panarthropoda

(2009) Georg Mayer et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

Support for vicariant origins of the New Zealand Onychophora

(2009) Julia Allwood et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Myoanatomy of the marine tardigradeHalobiotus crispae(Eutardigrada: Hypsibiidae)

(2009) Kenneth Agerlin Halberg et al.   JOURNAL OF MORPHOLOGY

Velvet worm development links myriapods with chelicerates

(2009) G. Mayer et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Position and development of oocytes in velvet worms shed light on the evolution of the ovary in Onychophora and Arthropoda

(2009) GEORG MAYER et al.   ZOOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY