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SUBMITTER: Lozano-Fernandez J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7078165 | biostudies-literature | 2020
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Lozano-Fernandez Jesus J Tanner Alastair R AR Puttick Mark N MN Vinther Jakob J Edgecombe Gregory D GD Pisani Davide D
Frontiers in genetics 20200311
Understanding the temporal context of terrestrialization in chelicerates depends on whether terrestrial groups, the traditional Arachnida, have a single origin and whether or not horseshoe crabs are primitively or secondarily marine. Molecular dating on a phylogenomic tree that recovers arachnid monophyly, constrained by 27 rigorously vetted fossil calibrations, estimates that Arachnida originated during the Cambrian or Ordovician. After the common ancestor colonized the land, the main lineages ...[more]