Deep Arthropod Products:

New genes for Metazoan phylogenetics!

From Jerry Regier's Laboratory we have:

PROTOCOLS PRIMERS AND FOR AMPLIFYING 68 SINGLE-COPY NUCLEAR PROTEIN CODING GENES

These primers work across the Arthropods, most Deuterostomes, and many other Metazoans

Educational Outreach Program

Read Funded NSF Proposal

Arthropod phylogeny papers
from the Cunningham Lab listed below

Morrison, C.L.,, A. W. Harvey, S. Lavery, K. Tieu, Y. Huang and C.W. CUNNINGHAM 2002. Mitochondrial gene rearrangements confirm the parallel evolution of the crab-like form PROC. ROY. ACAD. SER. B. 269: 345-350.

Emlen, D. J., J. Marangelo, B. Ball, and C. W. Cunningham. 2005. Diversity in the weapons of sexual selection: Horn evolution in the beetle genus Onthophagus (Coleoptera : Scarabaeidae). Evolution 59:1060-1084.

Oakley, Todd H. and Clifford W. CUNNINGHAM 2002. Molecular phylogenetic evidence for the independent evolutionary origin of an arthropod compound eye. PNAS 99: 1426-1430