Arthropod Relationships

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Body plans, phyla and arthropods

   • J. W. Valentine, H. Hamilton

   Pages 1-9

3. The phylogenetic position of the Arthropoda

   • C. Nielsen

   Pages 11-22

4. A defence of arthropod polyphyly

   • G. Fryer

   Pages 23-33

5. Hox genes and annelid-arthropod relationships

   • M. H. Dick

   Pages 35-41

6. Arthropod and annelid relationships re-examined

   • D. J. Eernisse

   Pages 43-56

7. Evolutionary correlates of arthropod tagmosis: scrambled legs

   • M. A. Wills, D. E. G. Briggs, R. A. Fortey

   Pages 57-65

8. Theories, patterns, and reality: game plan for arthropod phylogeny

   • M. J. Emerson, F. R. Schram

   Pages 67-86

9. Sampling, groundplans, total evidence and the systematics of arthropods

   • W. C. Wheeler

   Pages 87-96

10. Arthropod phylogeny: taxonomic congruence, total evidence and conditional combination approaches to morphological and molecular data sets

    • J. Zrzavý, V. Hypša, M. Vlášková

    Pages 97-107

11. The place of tardigrades in arthropod evolution

    • R. A. Dewel, W. C. Dewel

    Pages 109-123

12. Stem group arthropods from the Lower Cambrian Sirius Passet fauna of North Greenland

    • G. E. Budd

    Pages 125-138

13. Cambrian ‘Orsten’-type arthropods and the phylogeny of Crustacea

    • D. Walossek, K. J. Müller

    Pages 139-153

14. Comparative limb morphology in major crustacean groups: the coxa-basis joint in postmandibular limbs

    • G. Boxshall

    Pages 155-167

15. Crustacean phylogeny inferred from 18S rDNA

    • T. Spears, L. G. Abele

    Pages 169-187

16. A phylogeny of recent and fossil Crustacea derived from morphological characters

    • M. A. Wills

    Pages 189-209

17. The fossil record and evolution of the Myriapoda

    • W. A. Shear

    Pages 211-219

18. The early history and phylogeny of the chelicerates

    • J. A. Dunlop, P. A. Selden

    Pages 221-235

19. Problem of the basal dichotomy of the winged insects

    • A. P. Rasnitsyn

    Pages 237-248

20. Arthropod phylogeny and ‘basal’ morphological structures

    • J. Kukalová-Peck

    Pages 249-268

The arthropods contain more species than any other animal group, but the evolutionary pathways which led to their current diversity are still an issue of controversy. Arthropod Relationships provides an overview of our current understanding, responding to the new data arising from sequencing DNA, the discovery of new Cambrian fossils as direct evidence of early arthropod history, and developmental genetics. These new areas of research have stimulated a reconsideration of classical morphology and embryology. Arthropod Relationships is the first synthesis of the current debate to emerge: not since the volume edited by Gupta was published in 1979 has the arthropod phylogeny debate been, considered in this depth and breadth.
Leaders in the various branches of arthropod biology have contributed to this volume. Chapters focus progressively from the general issues to the specific problems involving particular groups, and thence to a consideration of embryology and genetics. This wide range of disciplines is drawn on to approach an understanding of arthropod relationships, and to provide the most timely account of arthropod phylogeny.
This book should be read by evolutionary biologists, palaeontologists, developmental geneticists and invertebrate zoologists. It will have a special interest for post-graduate students working in these fields.

• Crustacea
• Euarthropoda
• Evolution
• Fauna
• Myriapoda
• development
• embryology
• genes
• morphology
• phylogeny
• Model invertebrates

`... it may mark a historical transition. For practitioners in the field this will be an important book and should find its way onto their bookshelves ...'
Nature, 397 (1999)
`... their splendid Arthropod Relationships ... It is a milestone that will certainly be appreciated by students as well as specialists in the field. The book represents a clear and up-to-date review of arthropod phylogeny and handless some general phylogenetic aspects.'
TREE - Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 13:12 (1998)

• Department of Palaeontology, The Natural History Museum, London, UK

  R. A. Fortey

• Department of Zoology, The Natural History Museum, London, UK

  R. H. Thomas

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