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Chelicerata

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Chelicerata is a subphylum of arthropods that includes terrestrial as well as marine animals. Both the fossil record and molecular data place the origin of the chelicerates over 500 million years ago in the Cambrian (e.g., see Dunlop 2010; Rota-Stabelli et al. 2013). It has been shown that the chelicerates are a monophyletic group, and although they have previously been grouped together with the myriapods as Myriochelata, it is generally accepted that chelicerates represent the sister group of Mandibulata (pancrustaceans and myriapods; see Chaps. XX, YY, and ZZ) (Friedrich and Tautz 1995; Cook et al. 2001; Giribet et al. 2001; Hwang et al. 2001; Pisani et al. 2004; Dunn et al. 2008; Meusemann et al. 2010; Regier et al. 2010; Rota-Stabelli et al. 2011).

Keywords

  • Horseshoe Crab
  • Silk Gland
  • Evolutionary Developmental Biology
  • Book Lung
  • Opisthosomal Segment

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Schwager, E.E., Schönauer, A., Leite, D.J., Sharma, P.P., McGregor, A.P. (2015). Chelicerata. In: Wanninger, A. (eds) Evolutionary Developmental Biology of Invertebrates 3. Springer, Vienna. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7091-1865-8_5

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