Table of Contents

1 Bodyplans, phyla and arthropods.- 2 The phylogenetic position of the Arthropoda.- 3 A defence of arthropod polyphyly.- 4 Hox genes and annelid-arthropod relationships.- 5 Arthropod and annelid relationships re-examined.- 6 Evolutionary correlates of arthropod tagmosis: scrambled legs.- 7 Theories, patterns, and reality: game plan for arthropod phylogeny.- 8 Sampling, groundplans, total evidence and the systematics of arthropods.- 9 Arthropod phylogeny: taxonomic congruence, total evidence and conditional combination approaches to morphological and molecular data sets.- 10 The place of tardigrades in arthropod evolution.- 11 Stem group arthropods from the Lower Cambrian Sirius Passet fauna of North Greenland.- 12 Cambrian ‘Orsten’-type arthropods and the phylogeny of Crustacea.- 13 Comparative limb morphology in major crustacean groups: the coxa-basis joint in postmandibular limbs.- 14 Crustacean phylogeny inferred from 18S rDNA.- 15 A phylogeny of recent and fossil Crustacea derived from morphological characters.- 16 The fossil record and evolution of the Myriapoda.- 17 The early history and phylogeny of the chelicerates.- 18 Problem of the basal dichotomy of the winged insects.- 19 Arthropod phylogeny and ‘basal’ morphological structures.- 20 Advances and problems in insect phylogeny.- 21 The groundplan and basal diversification of the hexapods.- 22 Phylogenetic relationships between higher taxa of tracheate arthropods.- 23 Myriapod-insect relationships as opposed to an insect-crustacean sister group relationship.- 24 Cleavage, germ band formation and head segmentation: the ground pattern of the Euarthropoda.- 25 Homology and parallelism in arthropod sensory processing.- 26 The organization and development of the arthropod ventral nerve cord: insights intoarthropod relationships.

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`... 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)