Published in Nature on February 10, 2010
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ASGARD: an open-access database of annotated transcriptomes for emerging model arthropod species. Database (Oxford) (2012) 0.82
Expression patterns of neural genes in Euperipatoides kanangrensis suggest divergent evolution of onychophoran and euarthropod neurogenesis. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2010) 0.82
Quantifying the elevation of mitochondrial DNA evolutionary substitution rates over nuclear rates in the intertidal copepod Tigriopus californicus. J Mol Evol (2012) 0.82
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Serotonin-immunoreactivity in the ventral nerve cord of Pycnogonida--support for individually identifiable neurons as ancestral feature of the arthropod nervous system. BMC Evol Biol (2015) 0.81
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