Scanning electron microscopy has revealed new characteristics for phylogenetics and taxonomy. The scutigeromorphs are important for work on arthropod phylogeny because they lie at the base of the ...

A study analyzing Cambrian fossils uncovered that the ancestral ecdysozoan likely had a single ventral nerve cord, ...

The study is published in the journal Arthropod Systematics & Phylogeny. Future studies will examine more basal families as well as families whose monophyly is dubious, including more genera into ...