Skeletal gene expression in the temporal region of the reptilian embryos: implications for the evolution of reptilian skull morphology

Evolutionary Origin of the Turtle Shell

(2013) Tyler R. Lyson et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

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

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

The Head and Neck Anatomy of Sea Turtles (Cryptodira: Chelonioidea) and Skull Shape in Testudines

(2012) Marc E. H. Jones et al.   PLoS One

MicroRNAs support a turtle + lizard clade

(2011) T. R. Lyson et al.   Biology Letters

Early onset of Runx2 expression caused craniosynostosis, ectopic bone formation, and limb defects

(2011) Takafumi Maeno et al.   BONE

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

Osteology and cranial musculature of Caiman latirostris (crocodylia: Alligatoridae)

(2011) Paula Bona et al.   JOURNAL OF MORPHOLOGY

Multiple Genome Alignments Facilitate Development of NPCL Markers: A Case Study of Tetrapod Phylogeny Focusing on the Position of Turtles

(2011) X.-X. Shen et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Functional Relationship between Skull Form and Feeding Mechanics in Sphenodon, and Implications for Diapsid Skull Development

(2011) Neil Curtis et al.   PLoS One

Reptilian-transcriptome v1.0, a glimpse in the brain transcriptome of five divergent Sauropsida lineages and the phylogenetic position of turtles

(2011) Athanasia C Tzika et al.   EvoDevo

Transitional fossils and the origin of turtles

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

Connecting muscles to tendons: tendons and musculoskeletal development in flies and vertebrates

(2010) R. Schweitzer et al.   DEVELOPMENT

Inactivation of Msx1 and Msx2 in neural crest reveals an unexpected role in suppressing heterotopic bone formation in the head

(2010) Paul G. Roybal et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

Early cranial patterning in the direct-developing frog Eleutherodactylus coqui revealed through gene expression

(2010) Ryan Kerney et al.   EVOLUTION & DEVELOPMENT

Developmental origins of species-specific muscle pattern

(2009) Masayoshi Tokita et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

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

(2009) Ingmar Werneburg et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL DYNAMICS

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

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

Biomechanical assessment of evolutionary changes in the lepidosaurian skull

(2009) M. Moazen et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Mesenchyme-dependent BMP signaling directs the timing of mandibular osteogenesis

(2008) A. E. Merrill et al.   DEVELOPMENT

An ancestral turtle from the Late Triassic of southwestern China

(2008) Chun Li et al.   NATURE

HNK-1 immunoreactivity during early morphogenesis of the head region in a nonmodel vertebrate, crocodile embryo

(2008) Martin Kundrát   NATURWISSENSCHAFTEN