Comprehensive species sampling and sophisticated algorithmic approaches refute the monophyly of Arachnida
J. A. Ballesteros, C. E. Santibanez-Lopez, C. M. Baker, L. R. Benavides, T. J. Cunha, G. Gainett, A. Z. Ontano, E. V. Setton, C. P. Arango, E. Gavish-Regev, M. S. Harvey, W. C. Wheeler, G. Hormiga, G. Giribet, P. P. Sharma
The paper uses comprehensive genomic and morphological data to challenge the accepted monophyly of Arachnida, finding horseshoe crabs nested within a paraphyletic group.
bioRxiv · Aug 16, 2021Evolutionary Biology