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

TimeTree2: species divergence times on the iPhone

(2011) S. Kumar et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

MicroRNAs support a turtle + lizard clade

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

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

Discovery of Highly Divergent Repeat Landscapes in Snake Genomes Using High-Throughput Sequencing

(2011) Todd A. Castoe et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

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

Next-generation sequencing of transcriptomes: a guide to RNA isolation in nonmodel animals

(2011) PHILIPPE GAYRAL et al.   Molecular Ecology Resources

Dating the arthropod tree based on large-scale transcriptome data

(2011) Peter Rehm et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Dating cryptodiran nodes: Origin and diversification of the turtle superfamily Testudinoidea

(2011) João M. Lourenço et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Acoelomorph flatworms are deuterostomes related to Xenoturbella

(2011) Hervé Philippe et al.   NATURE

MACSE: Multiple Alignment of Coding SEquences Accounting for Frameshifts and Stop Codons

(2011) Vincent Ranwez 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

Resolving Difficult Phylogenetic Questions: Why More Sequences Are Not Enough

(2011) Hervé Philippe et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Sequencing the genome of the Burmese python (Python molurus bivittatus) as a model for studying extreme adaptations in snakes

(2011) Todd A Castoe et al.   GENOME BIOLOGY

Genome Evolution in Reptilia, the Sister Group of Mammals

(2010) Daniel E. Janes et al.   Annual Review of Genomics and Human Genetics

A maximum pseudo-likelihood approach for estimating species trees under the coalescent model

(2010) Liang Liu et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

New Algorithms and Methods to Estimate Maximum-Likelihood Phylogenies: Assessing the Performance of PhyML 3.0

(2010) Stéphane Guindon et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Watching the clock: Studying variation in rates of molecular evolution between species

(2010) Robert Lanfear et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

PhyloBayes 3: a Bayesian software package for phylogenetic reconstruction and molecular dating

(2009) Nicolas Lartillot et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Timing of organogenesis support basal position of turtles in the amniote tree of life

(2009) Ingmar Werneburg et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

PhyloExplorer: a web server to validate, explore and query phylogenetic trees

(2009) Vincent Ranwez et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Turtles …… again

(2009) Ann C. Burke   EVOLUTION & DEVELOPMENT

The deep evolution of metazoan microRNAs

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

How Did the Turtle Get Its Shell?

(2009) O. Rieppel   SCIENCE

The Impact of the Representation of Fossil Calibrations on Bayesian Estimation of Species Divergence Times

(2009) Jun Inoue et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Saltational evolution: hopeful monsters are here to stay

(2009) Günter Theißen   THEORY IN BIOSCIENCES

IS A NEW AND GENERAL THEORY OF MOLECULAR SYSTEMATICS EMERGING?

(2008) Scott V. Edwards   EVOLUTION

Trends in the evolution of reptilian chromosomes

(2008) E. Olmo   INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY

Altered miRNA Repertoire in the Simplified Chordate, Oikopleura dioica

(2008) X. Fu et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION