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Selected publications
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Underlined authors are Sharma group members.
For complete bibliography, please download CVs on the personnel page.
In preparation
86. *Crawford, A.R., Gainett, G., *So, C., Sharma, P.P. (in prep.) Eggs to long-legs: Embryonic development and staging of the harvestman Phalangium opilio (Arachnida, Opiliones). (*undergraduate co-author)
85. Santibáñez-López, C.E., Gavish-Regev, E., Ballesteros, J.A., Kovác, L’., Sharma, P.P. (in prep.) Phylotranscriptomics reveals venom homologs in arachnids.
84. Setton, E.V.W., Sharma, P.P. (in prep.) Morphogenesis of spider spinnerets.
83. Setton, E.V.W., Sharma, P.P. (in prep.) Systemic effects of inhibiting Wnt signaling in the spider Parasteatoda tepidariorum.
82. Santibáñez-López, C.E., Nolan, E.D., Sharma, P.P. (in prep.) Morphogenesis of the scorpion pectine.
81. Nolan, E.D., Santibáñez-López, C.E., Gainett, G., Ontano, A.Z., Setton, E.V.W., Sharma, P.P. (in prep.) Developmental data as a phylogenetic character.
Peer reviewed
80. Cano-Sánchez, E., Sharma, P.P., López-González, P.J. (in review) Postembryonic development of Nymphon australe Hodgson, 1902 (Pycnogonida, Nymphonidae) from Antarctica. Polar Biology.
79. Aharon, S., Ballesteros, J.A., Crawford, A.C., Friske, K., Guilherme, G., Langford, B., Santibáñez-López, C.E., Ya'aran, S., Gavish-Regev, E. & Sharma, P.P. (2019) The anatomy of an unstable node: A Levantine relict precipitates phylogenomic dissolution of higher-level relationships of the armored harvestmen (Arachnida: Opiliones: Laniatores). Invertebrate Systematics (doi: https://doi.org/10.1071/IS18057)
78. Santibáñez-López, C.E., González-Santillán, E., Monod, L., Sharma, P.P. (2019) Phylogenomics facilitates stable scorpion systematics: Reassessing the relationships of Vaejovidae and a new high-level classification of Scorpiones (Arachnida). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 135:22-30. [PDF]
77. Setton, E.V.W., Hendrixson, B.E. & Sharma, P.P. (in press) Embryogenesis in a Colorado population of Aphonopelma hentzi (Girard, 1852), a promising system for the study of development (Araneae, Mygalomorphae, Theraphosidae). Journal of Arachnology.
76. Gainett, G., Sharma, P.P., Fernandes, N., Pinto-da-Rocha, R., Giribet, G. & Willemart, R.H. (in press) Evolution of a sensory cluster on the legs of Opiliones (Arachnida) informs multi-level phylogenetic relationships. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society.
75. Ballesteros, J.A. & Sharma, P.P. (2019) A critical appraisal of the placement of Xiphosura (Chelicerata) with account of known sources of phylogenetic error. Systematic Biology (doi: 10.1093/sysbio/syz011) [PDF]
74. Sharma, P.P. (2019) Integrating morphology and phylogenomics supports a terrestrial origin of insect flight. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA 116:2796-2798. [PDF]
73. *Schmidt, S.M., Buenavente, P.A.C., Blatchley, D.D., Diesmos, A.C., Diesmos, M.L., General, D.E.M., Mohagan, A.B., Mohagan, D.J., Clouse, R.M. & Sharma, P.P. (2019) A new species of Tithaeidae (Arachnida: Opiliones: Laniatores) from Mindanao reveals contemporaneous colonization of the Philippines by Sunda Shelf opiliofauna. Invertebrate Systematics 33:237-251. [PDF]
72. *March, L.E., *Smaby, R.M., *Setton, E.V.W. & Sharma, P.P. (2018) The evolution of selector gene function: Expression dynamics and regulatory interactions of tiptop/teashirt across Arthropoda. Evolution & Development 20:219-232. [PDF] (*undergraduate co-author)
71. Santibañez López, C.E., Kriebel, R., Ballesteros, J.A., Rush, N., Witter, Z., Williams, J., Janies, D.A. & Sharma, P.P. (2018) Integration of phylogenomics and molecular modeling reveals lineage-specific diversification of toxins in scorpions. PeerJ 5902:1-13. [PDF]
70. Zhang, C., Zhang F. & Sharma, P.P. (2018) Two new species of Petrobunus Sharma & Giribet, 2011 from China (Opiliones: Laniatores: Petrobunidae). Zootaxa 4524:51-64. [PDF]
69. Leite, D.J., Baudouin-Gonzalez, L., Iwasaki-Yokozawa, S., Lozano-Fernandez, J., Turetzek, N., Akiyama-Oda, Y., Pisani, D., Oda, H., Sharma, P.P. & McGregor, A.P. (2018) Homeobox gene duplication and divergence in arachnids. Molecular Biology and Evolution 35:2240-2253. [PDF]
68. Sharma, P.P. (2018) Chelicerates. Current Biology 28:R774-778. [PDF]
67. Oberski, J.T., Sharma, P.P., Jay, K.R., Coblens, M., Lemon, K.A., Johnson, J.E. & Boyer, S.L. (2018) A dated molecular phylogeny of mite harvestmen (Arachnida: Opiliones: Cyphophthalmi) elucidates ancient diversification dynamics in the Australian Wet Tropics. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution (doi: 10.1016/j.ympev.2018.06.029) [PDF].
66. Gainett, G., Sharma, P.P., Giribet, G., Willemart, R.H. (2018) The sensory equipment of a sandokanid: an extreme case of tarsal reduction in a harvestman (Arachnida, Opiliones). Journal of Morphology (doi: 10.1002/jmor.20843). [PDF]
65. Di, Z., Edgecombe, G.D., Sharma, P.P. (2018) Homeosis in a scorpion supports a telopodal origin of pectines and book lungs. BMC Evolutionary Biology 18:73. [PDF]
64. Santibáñez-López, C.E., Ontano, A.Z., Harvey, M.S., & Sharma, P.P. (2018) Transcriptomic analysis of pseudoscorpion venom reveals a unique cocktail dominated by enzymes and protease inhibitors. Toxins 10:207. [PDF]
63. *Setton, E.V.W., Sharma, P.P. (2018) Cooption of an appendage patterning gene cassette in the head segmentation of arachnids. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA 115:E3491-E3500. [PDF] (*undergraduate co-author)
62. Gainett, G., Sharma, P.P., Giribet, G., Willemart, R.H. (2018) Putative adhesive setae on the walking legs of the Paleotropical harvestman Metibalonius sp. (Arachnida: Opiliones: Podoctidae). Journal of Arachnology 46:62-68. [PDF]
61. Sharma, P.P., Baker, C.M., Cosgrove, J.G., Johnson, J.E., Oberski, J.T., Raven, R.J., Harvey, M.S., Boyer, S.L. & Giribet, G. (2018) A revised dated phylogeny of scorpions: Phylogenomic support for ancient divergence of the temperate Gondwanan family Bothriuridae. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 122:37-45. [PDF]
60. Garb, J.E., Sharma, P.P. & Ayoub, N.A. (2018) Recent progress and prospects for advancing arachnid genomics. Current Opinions in Insect Science 25:51-57. [PDF]
59. Lewis, S.H., Quarles, K.A., Yang, Y., Tanguy, M., Frézal, L., Smith, S., Sharma, P.P, Cordaux, R., Gilbert, C., Giraud, I., Collins, D.H., Zamore, P.D., Miska, E.A., Sarkies, P. & Jiggins, F.M. (2018) Pan-arthropod analysis reveals somatic piRNAs as an ancestral defence against transposable elements. Nature Ecology and Evolution 2:174-181. [PDF]
58. Daniels, S.R., Dreyer, M. & Sharma, P.P. (2017) Contrasting the population genetic structure of two velvet worm taxa (Onychophora: Peripatopsidae: Peripatopsis) in forest fragments along the south eastern Cape, South Africa. Invertebrate Systematics 31:781-796. [PDF]
57. Sharma, P.P. (2017) Chelicerates and the conquest of land: A view of arachnid origins through an evodevo spyglass. Integrative and Comparative Biology 57, 510-522. [PDF]
56. *Schwager, E.E., *Sharma, P.P., *Clarke, T., *Leite, D.J., Wierschin, T., Pechmann M., Akiyama-Oda, Y., Esposito, L., Arensburger, P., Bechsgaard, J., Bilde, T., Buffry, A., Chao, H., Dinh, H., Doddapaneni, H., Dugan, S., Eibner C., Extavour, C.G., Funch, P., Garb, J., Gonzalez, V.L., Griffiths-Jones, S., Han, Y., Hayashi, C., Hilbrant, M., Hughes, D.S.T., Janssen, R., Lee, S.L., Maeso, I., Murali, S.C., Muzny, D.M., da Fonseca, R.N., Qu, J., Ronshaugen, M., Schomburg, C., Schönauer, A., Stollewerk, A., Torres-Oliva, M., Turetzek, N., Vanthournout, B., Werren, J., Wolff, C., Worley, K.C., Gibbs, R.A., Coddington, J., Oda, H., Stanke, M., Ayoub, N.A., Damen, W.G.M., Prpic, N.-M., Flot, J.-F., Posnien, N., Richards, S., & McGregor, A.P. (2017) The house spider genome reveals a whole genome duplication during arachnid evolution. BMC Biology 15:62. [PDF] (*equal author contribution)
55. *Setton, E.V.W., *March, L.E., *Nolan, E.D., Jones, T.E., Cho, H., Wheeler, W.C., Extavour, C.G. & Sharma, P.P. (2017) Expression and function of spineless orthologs correlate with distal deutocerebral appendage morphology in Arthropoda. Developmental Biology 430:224-236. (*undergraduate co-author) [PDF]
54. Clouse, R.M., Branstetter, M.G., Buenavente, P.A.C., Crowley, L.M., Czekanski-Moir, J., General, D.E.M., Giribet, G., Harvey, M.S., Janies, D.A., Mohagan, A.B., Sharma, P.P. & Wheeler, W.C. (2017) First molecular phylogeny of two arachnid orders (Schizomida and Uropygi) supports a tropical Pangean origin and mid-Cretaceous diversification. Journal of Biogeography 44:2660-2672. [PDF] [Featured on the journal cover]
53. Sharma P.P., Oberski, J.T., Santiago, M.A., Ricardo Kriebel, *Savana M. Lipps, Buenavente, P.A.C., Diesmos, A.C., Janda, M., Boyer, S.L., Clouse, R.M. & Wheeler, W.C. (2017) There is no evidence that Podoctidae carry eggs of their own species: Reply to Machado and Wolff (2017). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. (*undergraduate co-author) (doi: 10.1016/j.ympev.2017.03.026) [PDF]
52. *Santibañez-López, C., *Kriebel, R. & Sharma, P.P. (2017) eadem figura manet: Measuring morphological convergence in diplocentrid scorpions (Arachnida: Scorpiones: Diplocentridae) under a multilocus phylogenetic framework. Invertebrate Systematics. Invertebrate Systematics 31:233-248. [PDF] (*equal author contribution) [Featured on the journal cover]
51. Fernández, R., Sharma P.P., Tourinho, A.L. & Giribet, G. (2017) The Opiliones Tree of Life: shedding light on harvestmen relationships through transcriptomics. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B: Biological Sciences 284:20162340. [PDF]
50. Sharma P.P., *Santiago, M.A., Kriebel, R., *Lipps, S.M., Buenavente, P.A.C., Diesmos, A.C., Janda, M., Boyer, S.L., Clouse, R.M. & Wheeler, W.C. (2017) A multilocus phylogeny of Podoctidae (Arachnida, Opiliones, Laniatores) reveals the disutility of subfamily nomenclature and traditional character systems in armored harvestman systematics. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 106:164-173. [PDF] (*undergraduate co-author)
49. *Jay, K.R., Popkin-Hall, Z.R., *Coblens, M.J., *Oberski, J.T., Sharma, P.P. & Boyer, S.L. (2016) New species of Austropurcellia, cryptic short-range endemic mite harvestmen (Arachnida, Opiliones, Cyphophthalmi) from Australia's Wet Tropics biodiversity hotspot. Zookeys 586:37-93. [PDF] (*undergraduate co-author)
48. Iyer, H., Issigonis, M., Sharma, P.P., Extavour, C.G. & Newmark, P.A. (2016) A novel pre-meiotic function for boule in the planarian Schmidtea mediterranea. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA 113:E3509-E3518. (doi: 10.1073/pnas.1521341113) [PDF]
47. Sharma, P.P., Clouse, R.M. & Wheeler, W.C. (2016) Hennig's semaphoront concept and the use of ontogenetic stages in phylogenetic reconstruction. Cladistics. (doi: 10.1111/cla.12156) [PDF]
46. Daniels, S.R., Kunaka, C., Klaus, S. & Sharma, P.P. (2016) Unmasking alpha diversity, cladogenesis and biogeographical patterning in an ancient panarthropod lineage (Onychophora: Peripatopsidae: Opisthopatus cinctipes) with the description of five novel species. Cladistics. (doi: 10.1111/cla.12154) [PDF]
45. Giribet, G., Boyer, S.L., Baker, C.M., Fernández, R., Sharma P.P., de Bivort, B.L., Daniels, S.R., Harvey, M.S., Neethling, J.A. & Griswold, C.E. (2016) A molecular phylogeny of the temperate Gondwanan family Pettalidae (Arachnida, Opiliones, Cyphophthalmi) and the limits of taxonomic sampling. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 178:523-545. [PDF]
44. Pérez-González, A., Sharma, P.P. & Proud, D.N. (2016) Morphological tricks and blessed genitalia: rectifying the familial placement of Fijicolana tuberculata (Opiliones: Laniatores: Zalmoxidae). Zootaxa 4061:253-260. [PDF]
43. Clouse, R.M., Sharma, P.P., *Stuart, J.C., Davis, L.R., Giribet, G., Sarah, S.L. & Wheeler, W.C. (2016) Phylogeography of the harvestman Metasiro (Arthropoda, Arachnida, Opiliones) reveals a potential solution to the Pangean paradox. Organisms, Diversity and Evolution 16:167-184. [PDF] (*undergraduate co-author)
42. Sharma, P.P., *Santiago, M.A., González-Santillán, E., Monod, L. & Wheeler, W.C. (2015) Evidence of duplicated Hox genes in the most recent common ancestor of extant scorpions. Evolution and Development 17:347-355. [PDF] (*undergraduate co-author)
41. Clouse, R.M., Janda, M., *Blanchard, B., Sharma, P.P., Hoffmann, B.D., Andersen, A.N., Czekanski-Moir, J.E., Krushelnycky, P. Rabeling, C., Wilson, E.O., Economo, E.P., Sarnat, E.M., General, D.M., Alpert, G.D. & Wheeler, W.C. (2015) Molecular phylogeny of an Indo-Pacific carpenter ant (Hymenoptera: Formicidae, Camponotus) reveals waves of dispersal and colonization from diverse sources. Cladistics 31:424-437. [PDF] (*undergraduate co-author)
40. Schwager, E.E., Schönauer, A., Leite, D.J., Sharma, P.P. & McGregor, A.P. (2015) Chelicerata. In: Wanninger, A. (editor) Evolutionary Developmental Biology of Invertebrates, Vol. 3: Ecdysozoa I: Non-Tetraconata. Heidelberg: Springer. [PDF]
39. Sharma, P.P., Tarazona, O.A., Lopez, D.H., Schwager, E.E., Cohn, M.J., Wheeler, W.C. & Extavour, C.G. (2015) A conserved genetic mechanism differentiates gnathal and locomotory appendages in insects and arachnids. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B: Biological Sciences 282: 20150698. [PDF]
38. Sharma, P.P., Fernández, R., Esposito, L., González-Santillán, E. & Monod, L. (2015). Phylogenomic resolution of scorpions reveals multilevel discordance with morphological phylogenetic signal. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B: Biological Sciences 282: 20142953. [PDF]
37. Giribet, G. & Sharma, P.P. (2015) Evolutionary biology of harvestmen (Arachnida, Opiliones). Annual Reviews of Entomology 60:157-175. [PDF]
36. Sharma, P.P., Kaluziak, S.T., Pérez-Porro, A.R., González, V.L., Hormiga, G., Wheeler, W.C. & Giribet, G. (2014) Phylogenomic interrogation of Arachnida reveals systemic conflicts in phylogenetic signal. Molecular Biology and Evolution 31:2963-2984. [PDF] [Featured in the MBE Citation Classics of 2018, the top 1% of highly cited works]
35. Sharma, P.P. & Wheeler, W.C. (2014) Cross-bracing uncalibrated nodes in molecular dating improves congruence of fossil and molecular age estimates. Frontiers in Zoology 11:57. [PDF]
34. Sharma, P.P., Schwager, E.E., Extavour, C.G. & Wheeler, W.C. (2014) Hox gene duplications correlate with posterior heteronomy in scorpions. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B: Biological Sciences 281:20140661. [Featured in AMNH News & Blogs] [PDF]
33. Sharma, P.P. & Giribet G. (2014) A revised, dated phylogeny of the arachnid order Opiliones. Frontiers in Genetics 5:255. [PDF]
32. Fernandéz, R., Vahtera, V., Laumer, C.E., Libro, S., Kaluziak, S.T., Sharma, P.P., Pérez-Porro, A.R., Edgecombe, G.D. & Giribet, G. (2014) Evaluating topological conflict in centipede phylogeny using transcriptomic data sets. Molecular Biology and Evolution 31:1500-1513. [PDF]
31. *Garwood, R., *Sharma, P.P., Dunlop, J.A & Giribet, G. (2014) A Palaeozoic stem-group to mite harvestman revealed through integration of phylogenetics and development. (*equal author contribution). Current Biology 24:1017-1023. [Featured in: National Geographic's Weird and Wild; Discovery News; LiveScience; Wired; PBS Newshour; Huffington Post; International Business Times; Buzzfeed] [PDF]
30. Bieler, R., Mikkelsen, P.M., Collins, T.M., Glover, E.A., González, V.L., Graf, D.L., Harper, E.M., Healy, J., Kawauchi, G.Y., Sharma, P.P., Staubach, S., Strong, E.E., Taylor, J.D., Temkin, I., Zardus, J.D., Clark, S., Guzmán, A., McIntyre, E., Sharp, P. & Giribet, G. (2014) Investigating the Bivalve Tree of Life—an exemplar-based approach combining molecular and novel morphological characters. Invertebrate Systematics 28:32-115. [Featured on the journal cover] [compressed PDF]
29. Sharma, P.P., Gupta, T., Schwager, E.E., Wheeler, W.C. & Extavour, C.G. (2014) Subdivision of arthropod cap-n-collar expression domains is restricted to Mandibulata. EvoDevo 5:3. [PDF]
28. *Gainett, G., Sharma, P.P., Pinto-da-Rocha, R., Giribet, G. & Willemart, R.H. (2014) Walk it off: Predictive power of appendicular characters toward inference of higher-level relationships in Laniatores (Arachnida: Opiliones). Cladistics 30:120-138. [PDF] (*undergraduate co-author)
For complete bibliography, please download CVs on the personnel page.
In preparation
86. *Crawford, A.R., Gainett, G., *So, C., Sharma, P.P. (in prep.) Eggs to long-legs: Embryonic development and staging of the harvestman Phalangium opilio (Arachnida, Opiliones). (*undergraduate co-author)
85. Santibáñez-López, C.E., Gavish-Regev, E., Ballesteros, J.A., Kovác, L’., Sharma, P.P. (in prep.) Phylotranscriptomics reveals venom homologs in arachnids.
84. Setton, E.V.W., Sharma, P.P. (in prep.) Morphogenesis of spider spinnerets.
83. Setton, E.V.W., Sharma, P.P. (in prep.) Systemic effects of inhibiting Wnt signaling in the spider Parasteatoda tepidariorum.
82. Santibáñez-López, C.E., Nolan, E.D., Sharma, P.P. (in prep.) Morphogenesis of the scorpion pectine.
81. Nolan, E.D., Santibáñez-López, C.E., Gainett, G., Ontano, A.Z., Setton, E.V.W., Sharma, P.P. (in prep.) Developmental data as a phylogenetic character.
Peer reviewed
80. Cano-Sánchez, E., Sharma, P.P., López-González, P.J. (in review) Postembryonic development of Nymphon australe Hodgson, 1902 (Pycnogonida, Nymphonidae) from Antarctica. Polar Biology.
79. Aharon, S., Ballesteros, J.A., Crawford, A.C., Friske, K., Guilherme, G., Langford, B., Santibáñez-López, C.E., Ya'aran, S., Gavish-Regev, E. & Sharma, P.P. (2019) The anatomy of an unstable node: A Levantine relict precipitates phylogenomic dissolution of higher-level relationships of the armored harvestmen (Arachnida: Opiliones: Laniatores). Invertebrate Systematics (doi: https://doi.org/10.1071/IS18057)
78. Santibáñez-López, C.E., González-Santillán, E., Monod, L., Sharma, P.P. (2019) Phylogenomics facilitates stable scorpion systematics: Reassessing the relationships of Vaejovidae and a new high-level classification of Scorpiones (Arachnida). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 135:22-30. [PDF]
77. Setton, E.V.W., Hendrixson, B.E. & Sharma, P.P. (in press) Embryogenesis in a Colorado population of Aphonopelma hentzi (Girard, 1852), a promising system for the study of development (Araneae, Mygalomorphae, Theraphosidae). Journal of Arachnology.
76. Gainett, G., Sharma, P.P., Fernandes, N., Pinto-da-Rocha, R., Giribet, G. & Willemart, R.H. (in press) Evolution of a sensory cluster on the legs of Opiliones (Arachnida) informs multi-level phylogenetic relationships. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society.
75. Ballesteros, J.A. & Sharma, P.P. (2019) A critical appraisal of the placement of Xiphosura (Chelicerata) with account of known sources of phylogenetic error. Systematic Biology (doi: 10.1093/sysbio/syz011) [PDF]
74. Sharma, P.P. (2019) Integrating morphology and phylogenomics supports a terrestrial origin of insect flight. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA 116:2796-2798. [PDF]
73. *Schmidt, S.M., Buenavente, P.A.C., Blatchley, D.D., Diesmos, A.C., Diesmos, M.L., General, D.E.M., Mohagan, A.B., Mohagan, D.J., Clouse, R.M. & Sharma, P.P. (2019) A new species of Tithaeidae (Arachnida: Opiliones: Laniatores) from Mindanao reveals contemporaneous colonization of the Philippines by Sunda Shelf opiliofauna. Invertebrate Systematics 33:237-251. [PDF]
72. *March, L.E., *Smaby, R.M., *Setton, E.V.W. & Sharma, P.P. (2018) The evolution of selector gene function: Expression dynamics and regulatory interactions of tiptop/teashirt across Arthropoda. Evolution & Development 20:219-232. [PDF] (*undergraduate co-author)
71. Santibañez López, C.E., Kriebel, R., Ballesteros, J.A., Rush, N., Witter, Z., Williams, J., Janies, D.A. & Sharma, P.P. (2018) Integration of phylogenomics and molecular modeling reveals lineage-specific diversification of toxins in scorpions. PeerJ 5902:1-13. [PDF]
70. Zhang, C., Zhang F. & Sharma, P.P. (2018) Two new species of Petrobunus Sharma & Giribet, 2011 from China (Opiliones: Laniatores: Petrobunidae). Zootaxa 4524:51-64. [PDF]
69. Leite, D.J., Baudouin-Gonzalez, L., Iwasaki-Yokozawa, S., Lozano-Fernandez, J., Turetzek, N., Akiyama-Oda, Y., Pisani, D., Oda, H., Sharma, P.P. & McGregor, A.P. (2018) Homeobox gene duplication and divergence in arachnids. Molecular Biology and Evolution 35:2240-2253. [PDF]
68. Sharma, P.P. (2018) Chelicerates. Current Biology 28:R774-778. [PDF]
67. Oberski, J.T., Sharma, P.P., Jay, K.R., Coblens, M., Lemon, K.A., Johnson, J.E. & Boyer, S.L. (2018) A dated molecular phylogeny of mite harvestmen (Arachnida: Opiliones: Cyphophthalmi) elucidates ancient diversification dynamics in the Australian Wet Tropics. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution (doi: 10.1016/j.ympev.2018.06.029) [PDF].
66. Gainett, G., Sharma, P.P., Giribet, G., Willemart, R.H. (2018) The sensory equipment of a sandokanid: an extreme case of tarsal reduction in a harvestman (Arachnida, Opiliones). Journal of Morphology (doi: 10.1002/jmor.20843). [PDF]
65. Di, Z., Edgecombe, G.D., Sharma, P.P. (2018) Homeosis in a scorpion supports a telopodal origin of pectines and book lungs. BMC Evolutionary Biology 18:73. [PDF]
64. Santibáñez-López, C.E., Ontano, A.Z., Harvey, M.S., & Sharma, P.P. (2018) Transcriptomic analysis of pseudoscorpion venom reveals a unique cocktail dominated by enzymes and protease inhibitors. Toxins 10:207. [PDF]
63. *Setton, E.V.W., Sharma, P.P. (2018) Cooption of an appendage patterning gene cassette in the head segmentation of arachnids. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA 115:E3491-E3500. [PDF] (*undergraduate co-author)
62. Gainett, G., Sharma, P.P., Giribet, G., Willemart, R.H. (2018) Putative adhesive setae on the walking legs of the Paleotropical harvestman Metibalonius sp. (Arachnida: Opiliones: Podoctidae). Journal of Arachnology 46:62-68. [PDF]
61. Sharma, P.P., Baker, C.M., Cosgrove, J.G., Johnson, J.E., Oberski, J.T., Raven, R.J., Harvey, M.S., Boyer, S.L. & Giribet, G. (2018) A revised dated phylogeny of scorpions: Phylogenomic support for ancient divergence of the temperate Gondwanan family Bothriuridae. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 122:37-45. [PDF]
60. Garb, J.E., Sharma, P.P. & Ayoub, N.A. (2018) Recent progress and prospects for advancing arachnid genomics. Current Opinions in Insect Science 25:51-57. [PDF]
59. Lewis, S.H., Quarles, K.A., Yang, Y., Tanguy, M., Frézal, L., Smith, S., Sharma, P.P, Cordaux, R., Gilbert, C., Giraud, I., Collins, D.H., Zamore, P.D., Miska, E.A., Sarkies, P. & Jiggins, F.M. (2018) Pan-arthropod analysis reveals somatic piRNAs as an ancestral defence against transposable elements. Nature Ecology and Evolution 2:174-181. [PDF]
58. Daniels, S.R., Dreyer, M. & Sharma, P.P. (2017) Contrasting the population genetic structure of two velvet worm taxa (Onychophora: Peripatopsidae: Peripatopsis) in forest fragments along the south eastern Cape, South Africa. Invertebrate Systematics 31:781-796. [PDF]
57. Sharma, P.P. (2017) Chelicerates and the conquest of land: A view of arachnid origins through an evodevo spyglass. Integrative and Comparative Biology 57, 510-522. [PDF]
56. *Schwager, E.E., *Sharma, P.P., *Clarke, T., *Leite, D.J., Wierschin, T., Pechmann M., Akiyama-Oda, Y., Esposito, L., Arensburger, P., Bechsgaard, J., Bilde, T., Buffry, A., Chao, H., Dinh, H., Doddapaneni, H., Dugan, S., Eibner C., Extavour, C.G., Funch, P., Garb, J., Gonzalez, V.L., Griffiths-Jones, S., Han, Y., Hayashi, C., Hilbrant, M., Hughes, D.S.T., Janssen, R., Lee, S.L., Maeso, I., Murali, S.C., Muzny, D.M., da Fonseca, R.N., Qu, J., Ronshaugen, M., Schomburg, C., Schönauer, A., Stollewerk, A., Torres-Oliva, M., Turetzek, N., Vanthournout, B., Werren, J., Wolff, C., Worley, K.C., Gibbs, R.A., Coddington, J., Oda, H., Stanke, M., Ayoub, N.A., Damen, W.G.M., Prpic, N.-M., Flot, J.-F., Posnien, N., Richards, S., & McGregor, A.P. (2017) The house spider genome reveals a whole genome duplication during arachnid evolution. BMC Biology 15:62. [PDF] (*equal author contribution)
55. *Setton, E.V.W., *March, L.E., *Nolan, E.D., Jones, T.E., Cho, H., Wheeler, W.C., Extavour, C.G. & Sharma, P.P. (2017) Expression and function of spineless orthologs correlate with distal deutocerebral appendage morphology in Arthropoda. Developmental Biology 430:224-236. (*undergraduate co-author) [PDF]
54. Clouse, R.M., Branstetter, M.G., Buenavente, P.A.C., Crowley, L.M., Czekanski-Moir, J., General, D.E.M., Giribet, G., Harvey, M.S., Janies, D.A., Mohagan, A.B., Sharma, P.P. & Wheeler, W.C. (2017) First molecular phylogeny of two arachnid orders (Schizomida and Uropygi) supports a tropical Pangean origin and mid-Cretaceous diversification. Journal of Biogeography 44:2660-2672. [PDF] [Featured on the journal cover]
53. Sharma P.P., Oberski, J.T., Santiago, M.A., Ricardo Kriebel, *Savana M. Lipps, Buenavente, P.A.C., Diesmos, A.C., Janda, M., Boyer, S.L., Clouse, R.M. & Wheeler, W.C. (2017) There is no evidence that Podoctidae carry eggs of their own species: Reply to Machado and Wolff (2017). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. (*undergraduate co-author) (doi: 10.1016/j.ympev.2017.03.026) [PDF]
52. *Santibañez-López, C., *Kriebel, R. & Sharma, P.P. (2017) eadem figura manet: Measuring morphological convergence in diplocentrid scorpions (Arachnida: Scorpiones: Diplocentridae) under a multilocus phylogenetic framework. Invertebrate Systematics. Invertebrate Systematics 31:233-248. [PDF] (*equal author contribution) [Featured on the journal cover]
51. Fernández, R., Sharma P.P., Tourinho, A.L. & Giribet, G. (2017) The Opiliones Tree of Life: shedding light on harvestmen relationships through transcriptomics. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B: Biological Sciences 284:20162340. [PDF]
50. Sharma P.P., *Santiago, M.A., Kriebel, R., *Lipps, S.M., Buenavente, P.A.C., Diesmos, A.C., Janda, M., Boyer, S.L., Clouse, R.M. & Wheeler, W.C. (2017) A multilocus phylogeny of Podoctidae (Arachnida, Opiliones, Laniatores) reveals the disutility of subfamily nomenclature and traditional character systems in armored harvestman systematics. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 106:164-173. [PDF] (*undergraduate co-author)
49. *Jay, K.R., Popkin-Hall, Z.R., *Coblens, M.J., *Oberski, J.T., Sharma, P.P. & Boyer, S.L. (2016) New species of Austropurcellia, cryptic short-range endemic mite harvestmen (Arachnida, Opiliones, Cyphophthalmi) from Australia's Wet Tropics biodiversity hotspot. Zookeys 586:37-93. [PDF] (*undergraduate co-author)
48. Iyer, H., Issigonis, M., Sharma, P.P., Extavour, C.G. & Newmark, P.A. (2016) A novel pre-meiotic function for boule in the planarian Schmidtea mediterranea. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA 113:E3509-E3518. (doi: 10.1073/pnas.1521341113) [PDF]
47. Sharma, P.P., Clouse, R.M. & Wheeler, W.C. (2016) Hennig's semaphoront concept and the use of ontogenetic stages in phylogenetic reconstruction. Cladistics. (doi: 10.1111/cla.12156) [PDF]
46. Daniels, S.R., Kunaka, C., Klaus, S. & Sharma, P.P. (2016) Unmasking alpha diversity, cladogenesis and biogeographical patterning in an ancient panarthropod lineage (Onychophora: Peripatopsidae: Opisthopatus cinctipes) with the description of five novel species. Cladistics. (doi: 10.1111/cla.12154) [PDF]
45. Giribet, G., Boyer, S.L., Baker, C.M., Fernández, R., Sharma P.P., de Bivort, B.L., Daniels, S.R., Harvey, M.S., Neethling, J.A. & Griswold, C.E. (2016) A molecular phylogeny of the temperate Gondwanan family Pettalidae (Arachnida, Opiliones, Cyphophthalmi) and the limits of taxonomic sampling. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 178:523-545. [PDF]
44. Pérez-González, A., Sharma, P.P. & Proud, D.N. (2016) Morphological tricks and blessed genitalia: rectifying the familial placement of Fijicolana tuberculata (Opiliones: Laniatores: Zalmoxidae). Zootaxa 4061:253-260. [PDF]
43. Clouse, R.M., Sharma, P.P., *Stuart, J.C., Davis, L.R., Giribet, G., Sarah, S.L. & Wheeler, W.C. (2016) Phylogeography of the harvestman Metasiro (Arthropoda, Arachnida, Opiliones) reveals a potential solution to the Pangean paradox. Organisms, Diversity and Evolution 16:167-184. [PDF] (*undergraduate co-author)
42. Sharma, P.P., *Santiago, M.A., González-Santillán, E., Monod, L. & Wheeler, W.C. (2015) Evidence of duplicated Hox genes in the most recent common ancestor of extant scorpions. Evolution and Development 17:347-355. [PDF] (*undergraduate co-author)
41. Clouse, R.M., Janda, M., *Blanchard, B., Sharma, P.P., Hoffmann, B.D., Andersen, A.N., Czekanski-Moir, J.E., Krushelnycky, P. Rabeling, C., Wilson, E.O., Economo, E.P., Sarnat, E.M., General, D.M., Alpert, G.D. & Wheeler, W.C. (2015) Molecular phylogeny of an Indo-Pacific carpenter ant (Hymenoptera: Formicidae, Camponotus) reveals waves of dispersal and colonization from diverse sources. Cladistics 31:424-437. [PDF] (*undergraduate co-author)
40. Schwager, E.E., Schönauer, A., Leite, D.J., Sharma, P.P. & McGregor, A.P. (2015) Chelicerata. In: Wanninger, A. (editor) Evolutionary Developmental Biology of Invertebrates, Vol. 3: Ecdysozoa I: Non-Tetraconata. Heidelberg: Springer. [PDF]
39. Sharma, P.P., Tarazona, O.A., Lopez, D.H., Schwager, E.E., Cohn, M.J., Wheeler, W.C. & Extavour, C.G. (2015) A conserved genetic mechanism differentiates gnathal and locomotory appendages in insects and arachnids. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B: Biological Sciences 282: 20150698. [PDF]
38. Sharma, P.P., Fernández, R., Esposito, L., González-Santillán, E. & Monod, L. (2015). Phylogenomic resolution of scorpions reveals multilevel discordance with morphological phylogenetic signal. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B: Biological Sciences 282: 20142953. [PDF]
37. Giribet, G. & Sharma, P.P. (2015) Evolutionary biology of harvestmen (Arachnida, Opiliones). Annual Reviews of Entomology 60:157-175. [PDF]
36. Sharma, P.P., Kaluziak, S.T., Pérez-Porro, A.R., González, V.L., Hormiga, G., Wheeler, W.C. & Giribet, G. (2014) Phylogenomic interrogation of Arachnida reveals systemic conflicts in phylogenetic signal. Molecular Biology and Evolution 31:2963-2984. [PDF] [Featured in the MBE Citation Classics of 2018, the top 1% of highly cited works]
35. Sharma, P.P. & Wheeler, W.C. (2014) Cross-bracing uncalibrated nodes in molecular dating improves congruence of fossil and molecular age estimates. Frontiers in Zoology 11:57. [PDF]
34. Sharma, P.P., Schwager, E.E., Extavour, C.G. & Wheeler, W.C. (2014) Hox gene duplications correlate with posterior heteronomy in scorpions. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B: Biological Sciences 281:20140661. [Featured in AMNH News & Blogs] [PDF]
33. Sharma, P.P. & Giribet G. (2014) A revised, dated phylogeny of the arachnid order Opiliones. Frontiers in Genetics 5:255. [PDF]
32. Fernandéz, R., Vahtera, V., Laumer, C.E., Libro, S., Kaluziak, S.T., Sharma, P.P., Pérez-Porro, A.R., Edgecombe, G.D. & Giribet, G. (2014) Evaluating topological conflict in centipede phylogeny using transcriptomic data sets. Molecular Biology and Evolution 31:1500-1513. [PDF]
31. *Garwood, R., *Sharma, P.P., Dunlop, J.A & Giribet, G. (2014) A Palaeozoic stem-group to mite harvestman revealed through integration of phylogenetics and development. (*equal author contribution). Current Biology 24:1017-1023. [Featured in: National Geographic's Weird and Wild; Discovery News; LiveScience; Wired; PBS Newshour; Huffington Post; International Business Times; Buzzfeed] [PDF]
30. Bieler, R., Mikkelsen, P.M., Collins, T.M., Glover, E.A., González, V.L., Graf, D.L., Harper, E.M., Healy, J., Kawauchi, G.Y., Sharma, P.P., Staubach, S., Strong, E.E., Taylor, J.D., Temkin, I., Zardus, J.D., Clark, S., Guzmán, A., McIntyre, E., Sharp, P. & Giribet, G. (2014) Investigating the Bivalve Tree of Life—an exemplar-based approach combining molecular and novel morphological characters. Invertebrate Systematics 28:32-115. [Featured on the journal cover] [compressed PDF]
29. Sharma, P.P., Gupta, T., Schwager, E.E., Wheeler, W.C. & Extavour, C.G. (2014) Subdivision of arthropod cap-n-collar expression domains is restricted to Mandibulata. EvoDevo 5:3. [PDF]
28. *Gainett, G., Sharma, P.P., Pinto-da-Rocha, R., Giribet, G. & Willemart, R.H. (2014) Walk it off: Predictive power of appendicular characters toward inference of higher-level relationships in Laniatores (Arachnida: Opiliones). Cladistics 30:120-138. [PDF] (*undergraduate co-author)