MicroRNAs support a turtle + lizard clade

microRNA complements in deuterostomes: origin and evolution of microRNAs

(2011) Florent Campo-Paysaa et al.   EVOLUTION & DEVELOPMENT

Transitional fossils and the origin of turtles

(2010) T. R. Lyson et al.   Biology Letters

Proopiomelanocortin (POMC) and testing the phylogenetic position of turtles (Testudines)

(2010) Rosemary E. Becker et al.   JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGICAL SYSTEMATICS AND EVOLUTIONARY RESEARCH

microRNAs reveal the interrelationships of hagfish, lampreys, and gnathostomes and the nature of the ancestral vertebrate

(2010) A. M. Heimberg et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A congruent solution to arthropod phylogeny: phylogenomics, microRNAs and morphology support monophyletic Mandibulata

(2010) O. Rota-Stabelli et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The deep evolution of metazoan microRNAs

(2009) Benjamin M. Wheeler et al.   EVOLUTION & DEVELOPMENT

An ancestral turtle from the Late Triassic of southwestern China

(2008) Chun Li et al.   NATURE