DNA data has been widely used in animal phylogenetic studies over the past 15 years. Here
we review how these studies have used advances in knowledge of molecular evolutionary …

The past two decades have witnessed profound changes in our understanding of the
evolution of arthropods. Many of these insights derive from the adoption of molecular …

Life history theory seeks to explain the evolution of the major features of life cycles by
analyzing the ecological factors that shape age-specific schedules of growth, reproduction …

Myriapods (eg, centipedes and millipedes) display a simple homonomous body plan relative
to other arthropods. All members of the class are terrestrial, but they attained terrestriality …

The entire mitochondrial genome of the tobacco hornworm, Manduca sexta (Lepidoptera:
Spinghidae) was sequenced—a circular molecular 15516 bp in size. The arrangement of …

Remipedes are a small and enigmatic group of crustaceans, first described only 30 years
ago. Analyses of both morphological and molecular data have recently suggested a close …

The amphipod crustacean Parhyale hawaiensis is a blossoming model system for studies of
developmental mechanisms and more recently regeneration. We have sequenced the …

This work expands on a study from 2004 by Mallatt, Garey, and Shultz [Mallatt, JM, Garey,
JR, Shultz, JW, 2004. Ecdysozoan phylogeny and Bayesian inference: first use of nearly …

Ecdysozoa is a clade composed of eight phyla: the arthropods, tardigrades and
onychophorans that share segmentation and appendages and the nematodes …

Monophyly of Arthropoda is emphatically supported from both morphological and molecular
perspectives. Recent work finds Onychophora rather than Tardigrada to be the closest …