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References on Early Land Plant, Arthropod and Insect Evolution
The following scientific references provide supporting research on early land plant evolution,
arthropod terrestrialization, insect origins, hexapod phylogeny, fossil evidence and Bayesian
phylogenetic analysis.
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Morris, J. L. et al. The timescale of early land plant evolution.
Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA 115, E2274–E2283 (2018). -
Lozano-Fernandez, J. et al. A molecular palaeobiological exploration of arthropod terrestrialization.
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Lozano-Fernandez, J. et al. A Cambrian–Ordovician terrestrialization of arachnids.
Front. Genet. 11, 182 (2020). -
Mángano, M. G., Buatois, L. A., Astini, R. & Rindsberg, A. K.
Trilobites in early Cambrian tidal flats and the landward expansion of the Cambrian explosion.
Geology 42, 143–146 (2014). -
Edgecombe, G. D. et al. Aquatic stem group myriapods close a gap between molecular divergence dates
and the terrestrial fossil record. Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA 117, 8966–8972 (2020). -
Lamsdell, J. C., McCoy, V. E., Perron-Feller, O. A. & Hopkins, M. J.
Air breathing in an exceptionally preserved 340-million-year-old sea scorpion.
Curr. Biol. 30, 4316–4321 (2020). -
Ward, P., Labandeira, C., Laurin, M. & Berner, R. A.
Confirmation of Romer’s Gap as a low oxygen interval constraining the timing of initial arthropod
and vertebrate terrestrialization. Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA 103, 16818–16822 (2006). -
Garrouste, R. et al. A complete insect from the Late Devonian period.
Nature 488, 82–85 (2012). -
Rota-Stabelli, O., Daley, A. C. & Pisani, D.
Molecular timetrees reveal a Cambrian colonization of land and a new scenario for ecdysozoan evolution.
Curr. Biol. 23, 392–398 (2013). -
Gueriau, P. et al. A new Devonian euthycarcinoid reveals the use of different respiratory strategies
during the marine-to-terrestrial transition in the myriapod lineage.
R. Soc. Open Sci. 7, 201037 (2020). -
Clarke, J. T., Warnock, R. C. M. & Donoghue, P. C. J.
Establishing a time-scale for plant evolution. New Phytol. 192, 266–301 (2011). -
Du, S. et al. Revisiting the four Hexapoda classes: Protura as the sister group to all other hexapods.
Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA 121, e2408775121 (2024). -
Grimaldi, D. & Engel, M. S. Evolution of the Insects
(Cambridge Univ. Press, 2005). -
Misof, B. et al. Phylogenomics resolves the timing and pattern of insect evolution.
Science 346, 763–767 (2014). -
Schwentner, M., Combosch, D. J., Nelson, J. P. & Giribet, G.
A phylogenomic solution to the origin of insects by resolving crustacean-hexapod relationships.
Curr. Biol. 27, 1818–1824 (2017). -
Whalley, P. & Jarzembowski, E. A.
A new assessment of Rhyniella, the earliest known insect, from the Devonian of Rhynie, Scotland.
Nature 291, 317–317 (1981). -
Fayers, S. R. & Trewin, N. H.
A hexapod from the Early Devonian Windyfield Chert, Rhynie, Scotland.
Palaeontology 48, 1117–1130 (2005). -
Brauckmann, C., Brauckmann, B. & Groning, E.
The stratigraphical position of the oldest known Pterygota (Insecta. Carboniferous, Namurian).
Ann. Soc Géol. Belg. 117, 47–56 (1994). -
Nel, A. et al. The earliest known holometabolous insects.
Nature 503, 257–261 (2013). -
Shear, W. A. An insect to fill the gap. Nature 488, 34–35 (2012).
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Engel, M. S. & Grimaldi, D. A. New light shed on the oldest insect.
Nature 427, 627 (2004). -
Labandeira, C. C., Beall, B. S. & Hueber, F. M.
Early insect diversification: evidence from a Lower Devonian bristletail from Québec.
Science 242, 913–916 (1988). -
Haas, F., Waloszek, D. & Hartenberger, R.
Devonohexapodus bocksbergensis, a new marine hexapod from the Lower Devonian Hunsrück Slates,
and the origin of Atelocerata and Hexapoda.
Org. Divers. Evol. 3, 39–54 (2003). -
Hörnschemeyer, T. et al. Is Strudiella a Devonian insect?
Nature 494, E3–E4 (2013). -
Haug, C. & Haug, J. T. The presumed oldest flying insect: more likely a myriapod?
PeerJ 5, e3402 (2017). -
Jeram, A. J., Selden, P. A. & Edwards, D.
Land animals in the Silurian: arachnids and myriapods from Shropshire, England.
Science 250, 658–661 (1990). -
Kühl, G. & Rust, J. Devonohexapodus bocksbergensis is a synonym of
Wingertshellicus backesi (Euarthropoda) – no evidence for marine hexapods living in the Devonian Hunsrück Sea.
Org. Divers. Evol. 9, 215–231 (2009). -
Emerson, M. J. & Schram, F. R. Remipedia, part 2: paleontology.
Proc. San Diego Soc. Nat. Hist. 7, 1–52 (1991). -
Emerson, M. J. & Schram, F. R. The origin of crustacean biramous appendages and the evolution of Arthropoda.
Science 250, 667–669 (1990). -
Neiber, M. T. et al. Global biodiversity and phylogenetic evaluation of Remipedia (Crustacea).
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Schram, F. R. & Koenemann, S. Evolution and Phylogeny of Pancrustacea
(Oxford Univ. Press, 2021). -
Grimaldi, D. A. 400 million years on six legs: on the origin and early evolution of Hexapoda.
Arthropod Struct. Dev. 39, 191–203 (2010). -
Hörnig, M., Haug, C., Schneider, J. & Haug, J.
Evolution of reproductive strategies in dictyopteran insects – clues from ovipositor morphology of extinct roachoids.
Acta Palaeontol. Pol. 63, 1–24 (2018). -
Kukalová-Peck, J. New Carboniferous Diplura, Monura, and Thysanura, the hexapod ground plan,
and the role of thoracic side lobes in the origin of wings (Insecta).
Can. J. Zool. 65, 2327–2345 (1987). -
Bechly, G. & Stockar, R. The first Mesozoic record of the extinct apterygote insect genus
Dasyleptus (Insecta: Archaeognatha: Monura: Dasyleptidae) from the Triassic of Monte San Giorgio, Switzerland.
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Beutel, R. G., Friedrich, F., Yang, X.-K. & Ge, S.-Q.
Insect Morphology and Phylogeny: A Textbook for Students of Entomology
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Anderson, L. I. & Trewin, N. H. An Early Devonian arthropod fauna from the Windyfield cherts,
Aberdeenshire, Scotland. Palaeontology 46, 467–509 (2003). -
Konopova, B. & Akam, M. The Hox genes Ultrabithorax and abdominal-A
specify three different types of abdominal appendage in the springtail
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Jockusch, E. L. & Smith, F. W. In
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Bitsch, J. The controversial origin of the abdominal appendage-like processes in immature insects:
Are they true segmental appendages or secondary outgrowths? (Arthropoda, Hexapoda).
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Nowghani, F., Jonusaite, S., Watson-Leung, T., Donini, A. & Kelly, S. P.
Strategies of ionoregulation in the freshwater nymph of the mayfly
Hexagenia rigida. J. Exp. Biol. 220, 3997–4006 (2017). -
Prokop, J., Rosová, K., Leipner, A. & Sroka, P.
Thoracic and abdominal outgrowths in early pterygotes: a clue to the common ancestor of winged insects?
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Martinez-Delclos, X., Nel, A. & Popov, Y. A.
Systematics and functional morphology of Iberonepa romerali n. gen. and sp.,
Belostomatidae from the Spanish Lower Cretaceous (Insecta, Heteroptera).
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Hagner-Holler, S. et al. A respiratory hemocyanin from an insect.
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A phylogenetic approach by means of 28S rDNA and optimization alignment.
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King, P. B. Geology of the Eastern Part of the Marathon Basin, Texas
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Bitsch, J. & Nel, A. Morphology and classification of the extinct Archaeognatha and related taxa (Hexapoda).
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Noble-Nesbitt, J. Transpiration in Podura aquatica L.
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Delaney, M. J. Life histories in the Thysanura.
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Brooks, H. K. A crustacean from the Tesnus Formation (Pennsylvanian) of Texas.
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Noble, P. J. Paleoceanographic and tectonic implications of a regionally extensive Early Mississippian hiatus
in the Ouachita system, southern mid-continental United States.
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Ellison, S. P. Conodonts from the Trans-Pecos Paleozoic of Texas.
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Elias, M. K. Some Mississippian conodonts from the Ouachita Mountains.
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Hass, W. H. Conodont from the Arkansas novaculite, Stanley shale and Jackfork sandstone.
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Shaulis, B. J., Lapen, T. J., Casey, J. F., Staszyc, A. & Newberry, A. S.
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constraints from U-Pb ages of zircon in subaqueous tuff deposits.
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Marathon uplift and hydrocarbon potential.
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Shaulis, B., Lapen, T., Casey, J. F. & Reid, D.
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Oklahoma and Arkansas, U.S.A.: constraints from U-Pb zircon ages of subaqueous ash-flow tuffs.
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Pointon, M. A., Chew, D. M., Ovtcharova, M., Sevastopulo, G. D. & Crowley, Q. G.
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the periodicity of late Carboniferous cycles and stratigraphical correlation.
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King, P. B. Geology of the Marathon region, Texas.
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Baker, C. L. Radiolaria in the Tesnus Formation, Marathon Basin, Trans-Pecos Texas.
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Bitsch, C. & Bitsch, J. Phylogenetic relationships of basal hexapods among the mandibulate arthropods:
a cladistic analysis based on comparative morphological characters.
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von Reumont, B. M. et al. Pancrustacean phylogeny in the light of new phylogenomic data:
support for Remipedia as the possible sister group of Hexapoda.
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Lozano-Fernandez, J. et al. Pancrustacean evolution illuminated by taxon-rich genomic-scale data sets
with an expanded remipede sampling.
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Li, Y.-D. et al. Foveapeltis gen. nov., an unusual cleroid genus with large hypomeral cavities
from mid-Cretaceous amber (Coleoptera: Cleroidea).
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