The L ate J urassic to E arly C retaceous interval represents a time of environmental
upheaval and cataclysmic events, combined with disruptions to terrestrial and marine …

Comprising over 15 000 living species, decapods (crabs, shrimp and lobsters) are the most
instantly recognizable crustaceans, representing a considerable global food source …

Numerous crustacean lineages have independently moved into parasitism as a mode of life.
In modern marine ecosystems, parasitic crustaceans use representatives from many …

Simple sequence repeats (SSRs) are rare (approximately 1%) in most genomes and are
generally considered to have no function. However, penaeid shrimp genomes have a high …

Approaches to macroevolution require integration of its two fundamental components, within
a hierarchical framework. Following a companion paper on the origin of variation, I here …

Global biodiversity patterns in deep time can only be understood fully when the relative
preservation potential of each clade is known. The relative preservation potential of marine …

Abstract The Mesozoic Marine Revolution (MMR) was a major evolutionary episode
involving the large-scale restructuring of shallow-marine benthic communities and the rise to …

Parasites are common in modern ecosystems and are also known from the fossil record.
One of the best preserved and easily recognisable examples of parasitism in the fossil …

Patterns of diversity and faunal turnover of major groups of decapod crustaceans throughout
the Phanerozoic are analyzed based upon data from all known fossil species reported to …

During and after the Cambrian explosion, very large marine invertebrate species have
evolved in several groups. Gigantism in Carboniferous land invertebrates has been …