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

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

Evolutionary Origin of the Turtle Shell

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

Turtle Origins: Picking Up Speed

(2013) Scott F. Gilbert et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL CELL

Turtle origins: insights from phylogenetic retrofitting and molecular scaffolds

(2013) M. S. Y. Lee   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

miRNAs: Small Genes with Big Potential in Metazoan Phylogenetics

(2013) James E. Tarver et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Inferring ancient divergences requires genes with strong phylogenetic signals

(2013) Leonidas Salichos et al.   NATURE

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

Using Genes as Characters and a Parsimony Analysis to Explore the Phylogenetic Position of Turtles

(2013) Bin Lu et al.   PLoS One

Genomic Diversity and Evolution of the Head Crest in the Rock Pigeon

(2013) M. D. Shapiro et al.   SCIENCE

Sequencing three crocodilian genomes to illuminate the evolution of archosaurs and amniotes

(2013) John A St John et al.   GENOME BIOLOGY

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

Do miRNAs have a deep evolutionary history?

(2012) James E. Tarver et al.   BIOESSAYS

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

Bayesian Phylogenetics with BEAUti and the BEAST 1.7

(2012) Alexei J. Drummond et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

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

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

MicroRNAs support a turtle + lizard clade

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

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

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

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

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

miRBase: integrating microRNA annotation and deep-sequencing data

(2010) A. Kozomara et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

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

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