The diversity of venom: the importance of behavior and venom system morphology in understanding its ecology and evolution

V Schendel, LD Rash, RA Jenner, EAB Undheim - Toxins, 2019 - mdpi.com
Venoms are one of the most convergent of animal traits known, and encompass a much
greater taxonomic and functional diversity than is commonly appreciated. This knowledge …

Fossil calibrations for the arthropod Tree of Life

JM Wolfe, AC Daley, DA Legg, GD Edgecombe - Earth-Science Reviews, 2016 - Elsevier
Fossil age data and molecular sequences are increasingly combined to establish a
timescale for the Tree of Life. Arthropods, as the most species-rich and morphologically …

A critical appraisal of the placement of **s in the scorpion family Buthidae (Arachnida: Scorpiones)

J Štundlová, F Šťáhlavský, V Opatova, J Stundl… - Molecular Phylogenetics …, 2022 - Elsevier
The family Buthidae represents an early-diverging and most species-rich lineage of extant
scorpions, but its internal phylogenetic relationships are still poorly understood. The family is …

A review of Burmese amber arachnids

PA Selden, D Ren - The Journal of Arachnology, 2017 - BioOne
Fossils from the mid-Cretaceous (c. 99 Ma) Myanmar (Burma) amber include all extant
orders of Arachnida, including the earliest representatives of Schizomida, Parasitiformes …