Emerging from the rib: Resolving the turtle controversies

Homology of the enigmatic nuchal bone reveals novel reorganization of the shoulder girdle in the evolution of the turtle shell

(2015) Tyler R. Lyson et al.   EVOLUTION & DEVELOPMENT

A new specimen of Manchurochelys manchoukuoensis from the Early Cretaceous Jehol Biota of Chifeng, Inner Mongolia, China and the phylogeny of Cretaceous basal eucryptodiran turtles

(2014) Chang-Fu Zhou et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

The origin and loss of periodic patterning in the turtle shell

(2014) J. E. Moustakas-Verho et al.   DEVELOPMENT

Toward consilience in reptile phylogeny: miRNAs support an archosaur, not lepidosaur, affinity for turtles

(2014) Daniel J. Field et al.   EVOLUTION & DEVELOPMENT

Comparative study of the shell development of hard- and soft-shelled turtles

(2014) Hiroshi Nagashima et al.   JOURNAL OF ANATOMY

The girdles of the oldest fossil turtle, Proterochersis robusta, and the age of the turtle crown

(2013) Walter G Joyce et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

BMP9 and COX-2 form an important regulatory loop in BMP9-induced osteogenic differentiation of mesenchymal stem cells

(2013) Jin-Hua Wang et al.   BONE

Bone morphogenetic proteins 4 and 2/7 induce osteogenic differentiation of mouse skin derived fibroblast and dermal papilla cells

(2013) Riina M. Myllylä et al.   CELL AND TISSUE RESEARCH

Enhanced BMP signaling prevents degeneration and leads to endochondral ossification of Meckel′s cartilage in mice

(2013) Ying Wang et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

Late-emigrating trunk neural crest cells in turtle embryos generate an osteogenic ectomesenchyme in the plastron

(2013) Judith A. Cebra-Thomas et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL DYNAMICS

The draft genomes of soft-shell turtle and green sea turtle yield insights into the development and evolution of the turtle-specific body plan

(2013) Zhuo Wang et al.   NATURE GENETICS

The endoskeletal origin of the turtle carapace

(2013) Tatsuya Hirasawa et al.   Nature Communications

The western painted turtle genome, a model for the evolution of extreme physiological adaptations in a slowly evolving lineage

(2013) H Bradley Shaffer et al.   GENOME BIOLOGY

More than 1000 ultraconserved elements provide evidence that turtles are the sister group of archosaurs

(2012) N. G. Crawford et al.   Biology Letters

Phylogenomic analyses support the position of turtles as the sister group of birds and crocodiles (Archosauria)

(2012) Ylenia Chiari et al.   BMC BIOLOGY

A Phylogenomic Approach to Vertebrate Phylogeny Supports a Turtle-Archosaur Affinity and a Possible Paraphyletic Lissamphibia

(2012) Jonathan J. Fong et al.   PLoS One

Ontogeny of the Shell Bones of Embryos of Podocnemis unifilis (Troschel, 1848) (Testudines, Podocnemididae)

(2011) Fabiano Campos Lima et al.   Anatomical Record-Advances in Integrative Anatomy and Evolutionary Biology

Body plan of turtles: an anatomical, developmental and evolutionary perspective

(2011) Hiroshi Nagashima et al.   ANATOMICAL SCIENCE INTERNATIONAL

Hepatocyte growth factor is crucial for development of the carapace in turtles

(2011) Yoshie Kawashima-Ohya et al.   EVOLUTION & DEVELOPMENT

Evolutionary developmental perspective for the origin of turtles: the folding theory for the shell based on the developmental nature of the carapacial ridge

(2011) Shigeru Kuratani et al.   EVOLUTION & DEVELOPMENT

Evidence for a Myotomal Hox/Myf Cascade Governing Nonautonomous Control of Rib Specification within Global Vertebral Domains

(2010) Tânia Vinagre et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL CELL

Embryogenesis and ossification ofEmydura subglobosa(Testudines, Pleurodira, Chelidae) and patterns of turtle development

(2009) Ingmar Werneburg et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL DYNAMICS

The integumentary skeleton of tetrapods: origin, evolution, and development

(2009) Matthew K. Vickaryous et al.   JOURNAL OF ANATOMY

Skeletal development in the Chinese soft-shelled turtlePelodiscus sinensis(Testudines: Trionychidae)

(2009) Marcelo R. Sánchez-Villagra et al.   JOURNAL OF MORPHOLOGY

Evolution of the Turtle Body Plan by the Folding and Creation of New Muscle Connections

(2009) H. Nagashima et al.   SCIENCE

The lateral somitic frontier in ontogeny and phylogeny

(2008) Rebecca Marie Shearman et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL ZOOLOGY PART B-MOLECULAR AND DEVELOPMENTAL EVOLUTION

The ontogeny of the shell in side‐necked turtles, with emphasis on the homologies of costal and neural bones

(2008) Torsten M. Scheyer et al.   JOURNAL OF MORPHOLOGY

An ancestral turtle from the Late Triassic of southwestern China

(2008) Chun Li et al.   NATURE