Arthropod Relationships

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Richard A. Fortey, Richard H. Thomas
Springer Science & Business Media, 31. dec. 1997 - 383 strani
The arthropods contain more species than any other animal group, but the evolutionary pathways which led to their current diversity are still an issue of controversy. Arthropod Relationships provides an overview of our current understanding, responding to the new data arising from sequencing DNA, the discovery of new Cambrian fossils as direct evidence of early arthropod history, and developmental genetics. These new areas of research have stimulated a reconsideration of classical morphology and embryology. Arthropod Relationships is the first synthesis of the current debate to emerge: not since the volume edited by Gupta was published in 1979 has the arthropod phylogeny debate been, considered in this depth and breadth.
Leaders in the various branches of arthropod biology have contributed to this volume. Chapters focus progressively from the general issues to the specific problems involving particular groups, and thence to a consideration of embryology and genetics. This wide range of disciplines is drawn on to approach an understanding of arthropod relationships, and to provide the most timely account of arthropod phylogeny.
This book should be read by evolutionary biologists, palaeontologists, developmental geneticists and invertebrate zoologists. It will have a special interest for post-graduate students working in these fields.
 

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A defence of arthropod polyphyly
23
Arthropod and annelid relationships reexamined
43
scrambled legs
57
Sampling groundplans total evidence and the systematics of arthropods
87
The place of tardigrades in arthropod evolution
109
Stem group arthropods from the Lower Cambrian Sirius Passet fauna
125
Cambrian Orstentype arthropods and the phylogeny of Crustacea
139
the coxabasis
155
The fossil record and evolution of the Myriapoda
211
Problem of the basal dichotomy of the winged insects
237
Arthropod phylogeny and basal morphological structures
247
Advances and problems in insect phylogeny
269
Phylogenetic relationships between higher taxa of tracheate arthropods
295
W DOHLE Colonel By Drive Ottawa K1S
305
the ground pattern
317
Homology and parallelism in arthropod sensory processing
333

Crustacean phylogeny inferred from 18S rDNA
169
A phylogeny of recent and fossil Crustacea derived from morphological
189

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