Recent Advances and Unanswered Questions in Deep Molluscan Phylogenetics*

Phylogenomics meets neuroscience: How many times might complex brains have evolved?

(2012) L. Moroz   ACTA BIOLOGICA HUNGARICA

A Silurian armoured aplacophoran and implications for molluscan phylogeny

(2012) Mark D. Sutton et al.   NATURE

A chiton without a foot

(2012) MARK D. SUTTON et al.   PALAEONTOLOGY

Mouthparts of the Burgess Shale fossils Odontogriphus and Wiwaxia: implications for the ancestral molluscan radula

(2012) M. R. Smith   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

A new view of insect–crustacean relationships II. Inferences from expressed sequence tags and comparisons with neural cladistics

(2011) David R. Andrew   ARTHROPOD STRUCTURE & DEVELOPMENT

Cephalopod origin and evolution: A congruent picture emerging from fossils, development and molecules

(2011) Björn Kröger et al.   BIOESSAYS

Neuropeptide evolution: Neurohormones and neuropeptides predicted from the genomes of Capitella teleta and Helobdella robusta

(2011) Jan A. Veenstra   GENERAL AND COMPARATIVE ENDOCRINOLOGY

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

Paleontological evidence for the supposed precambrian occurrence of mollusks

(2011) A. Yu. Ivantsov   PALEONTOLOGICAL JOURNAL

Fast evolving 18S rRNA sequences from Solenogastres (Mollusca) resist standard PCR amplification and give new insights into mollusk substitution rate heterogeneity

(2010) Achim Meyer et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Of tests, trochs, shells, and spicules: Development of the basal mollusk Wirenia argentea (Solenogastres) and its bearing on the evolution of trochozoan larval key features

(2010) Christiane Todt et al.   Frontiers in Zoology

Crinoids for lunch? An unexpected biotic interaction from the Upper Ordovician of Scotland

(2010) Stephen K. Donovan et al.   GEOLOGY

A phylogeny of Vetigastropoda and other “archaeogastropods”: re-organizing old gastropod clades

(2010) Stephanie W. Aktipis et al.   INVERTEBRATE BIOLOGY

The mechanism of shell elevation in Haliotis (Mollusca: Gastropoda) and a consideration of the evolution of the hydrostatic skeleton in Mollusca

(2010) E. R. Trueman et al.   JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY

Evolutionary Dynamics of the wnt Gene Family: A Lophotrochozoan Perspective

(2010) S.-J. Cho et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Improved Phylogenomic Taxon Sampling Noticeably Affects Nonbilaterian Relationships

(2010) K. S. Pick et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

A Phylogenomic Approach to Resolve the Arthropod Tree of Life

(2010) K. Meusemann et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

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

(2010) Jerome C. Regier et al.   NATURE

Selecting ribosomal protein genes for invertebrate phylogenetic inferences: how many genes to resolve the Mollusca?

(2010) Achim Meyer et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

HaMStR: Profile hidden markov model based search for orthologs in ESTs

(2009) Ingo Ebersberger et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

On the Independent Origins of Complex Brains and Neurons

(2009) Leonid L. Moroz   BRAIN BEHAVIOR AND EVOLUTION

Molluscan shell evolution with review of shell calcification hypothesis

(2009) Takeshi Furuhashi et al.   COMPARATIVE BIOCHEMISTRY AND PHYSIOLOGY B-BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

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

Phylogenetic-Signal Dissection of Nuclear Housekeeping Genes Supports the Paraphyly of Sponges and the Monophyly of Eumetazoa

(2009) E. A. Sperling et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Assessing the molluscan hypothesis Serialia (Monoplacophora+Polyplacophora) using novel molecular data

(2009) Nerida G. Wilson et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

New reconstruction of Kimberella, problematic Vendian metazoan

(2009) A. Yu. Ivantsov   PALEONTOLOGICAL JOURNAL

Assessing the root of bilaterian animals with scalable phylogenomic methods

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

The Use and Validity of Composite Taxa in Phylogenetic Analysis

(2009) Véronique Campbell et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Ultrastructure of epidermal cilia and ciliary rootlets in Scaphopoda

(2008) Kennet Lundin et al.   JOURNAL OF MOLLUSCAN STUDIES

Hemocyanin in mollusks—A molecular survey and new data on hemocyanin genes in Solenogastres and Caudofoveata☆

(2008) B LIEB et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Broad phylogenomic sampling improves resolution of the animal tree of life

(2008) Casey W. Dunn et al.   NATURE

Multigene analysis of lophophorate and chaetognath phylogenetic relationships

(2007) Martin Helmkampf et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION