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Publications at UW-Madison
Underlined authors are Sharma group members or affiliates.
For complete bibliography, please download CVs on the personnel pages.
Peer reviewed
141. Setton, E.V.W., Neu, S.M., Laumer, E.L., Klementz, B.C., Wanninger, A., Sharma P.P., Brenneis, G. (in review) The arthropod labrum and sea spider proboscis represent outgrowths of an antero-median oral field.
140. Klementz, B.C., Neu, S.M., Laumer, E.L., Hinne, I., Setton, E.V.W., Verma, N., Hämmerle, M., Rallis, J., Barnett, A.A., Brenneis, G., Gulia-Nuss, M., Pavlopoulos, A., Sharma, P.P. (2026) Developmental system drift in the patterning of the arthropod tarsus. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 293:20252557. [PDF]
139. Bolton, S.J., Sharma, P.P. (2026, in press) Reconciling morphology with phylogenomics in Chelicerata (Arthropoda). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society.
138. Santibáñez-López, C.E., Sharma, P.P. (2026, in press) Advances in the phylogenomics of Neotropical scorpions. In: The Biology of Neotropical Scorpions (Eds: Lira, A., González-Santillán, E.). Springer Press.
137. Garcia, E.L., Ganem, Z., Kulkarni, S.S., Perl, I., Sharma, P.P., Gavish-Regev, E. (2026) Genomic insights unveil taxonomic incongruities and evolutionary origins of solifuges across the southern Levant. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 108554.
136. Bhoi, J.P., Mule, R., Savale, N., Sharma, P.P., Kulkarni, S.S. (2026) Ancient gene linkages and ultraconserved elements disentangle Acari interrelationships. iScience, 114616.
135. Lo-Man-Hung, N., Andrade, S.C., Sharma, P.P., Torres, T.T., Brown, F.D. (2025) Efficiency of five RNA extraction protocols for Grammostola actaeon (Pocock, 1903) small spinneret tissue samples. Journal of Arachnology 53:118-124. [PDF]
134. Hussein, S.I., Al-Awadhi, R.M., Nafie, M.S., Abdel-Nabi, I.M., Gerges, M.M., Sharma, P.P., Abdel-Rahman, M.A. (2025) Scorpion venom cytolytic peptide Smp43 induces caspase-dependent apoptosis in ovarian carcinoma cell line OVCAR-3. Egyptian Journal of Basic and Applied Sciences 12:300-316. [PDF]
133. Klementz, B.C., Kulkarni, S.S., Abshire, K.A., Sharma, P.P. (2025) Exploring genome architecture as a source of phylogenetic characters for resolving the apulmonate arachnid phylogeny. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 210:108380. [PDF]
132. Papadopoulos, N., Kulkarni, S.S., Fromm, B., Baranyi, C., Setton, E.V.W., Sharma, P.P., Wanninger, A., Brenneis, G. (2025) The genome of a sea spider corroborates a shared Hox cluster motif in arthropods with reduced posterior tagma. BMC Biology 23:196. [PDF] [Featured in The New York Times]
131. Abshire, K.M., Sharma, P.P. (2025) Embryonic staging of the brown garden snail Cornu aspersum (Gastropoda: Stylommatophora), an emerging model gastropod. Journal of Molluscan Studies 91:eyaf012. [PDF]
130. Klementz, B.C., Brenneis, G., Laumer, E.M., Neu, S.M., Harvey, M.S., Sharma, P.P. (2025) Evolution and homology of leg segments in Chelicerata: evo-devo solutions to century-old problems. Arthropod Structure and Development 87:101446. [PDF]
129. Hinne, I.A., Ciccotti, H.R., Wudarski, J., Pham, M.N., Sharma, A., McVicar, M.M., Faustino, B., Nuss, A.B., Sharma, P.P., Gulia-Nuss, M. (2025) Early embryonic development in the tick Ixodes scapularis suggests syncytial organization and cellularization before blastoderm formation. EvoDevo 16:4. [PDF]
128. Propistsova, E.A., Gainett, G., Chipman, A.D., Sharma, P.P., Gavish-Regev, E. (2025) Shedding light on the embryogenesis and eye development of the cave spider Tegenaria pagana C. L. Koch, 1840 (Araneae: Agelenidae). EvoDevo 16:2. [PDF]
127. Kulkarni, S.S., Klementz, B.C., Sharma, P.P. (2025) A chromosome-level genome of the giant vinegaroon Mastigoproctus giganteus exhibits the signature of pre-Silurian whole genome duplication. Journal of Heredity esae074. [PDF]
126. Sharma, P.P., Gavish-Regev, E. (2025) The evolutionary biology of Chelicerata. Annual Review of Entomology 70:143-163. [PDF]
125. ^Psenicnik, A.F., Ojanguren-Affilastro, A.A., Graham, M.R., Hassan, M.K., Abdel-Rahman, M.A., Sharma, P.P., Santibáñez-López, C.E. (2024) Optimizing scorpion toxin processing through artificial intelligence. Toxins 16:437. [PDF] (^undergraduate co-author)
124. Klementz, B.C., Brenneis, G., Hinne, I.A., ^Laumer, E.M., ^Neu, S.M., ^Hareid, G.M., Gainett, G., Setton, E.V.W., Simian, C., Vrech, D.E, Joyce, I., Barnett, A.A., Patel, N.H., Harvey, M.S., Peretti, A.V., Gulia-Nuss, M., Sharma, P.P. (2024) A novel expression domain of extradenticle underlies the evolutionary developmental origin of the chelicerate patella. Molecular Biology and Evolution 41:msae188. [PDF](^undergraduate co-author)
123. Setton, EV.W., Ballesteros, J.A., ^Blaszczyk, P.O., Klementz, B.C., Sharma, P.P. (2024) A taxon-restricted duplicate of Iroquois3 is required for patterning the spider waist. PLoS Biology 22(8):e3002771. [PDF] [Featured in Science] [Featured in EurekAlert!] [Featured in Cosmos Magazine] (^undergraduate co-author)
122. ^Steiner, H.G., Aharon, S., Ballesteros, J.A., Gainett, G., Gavish-Regev, E., Sharma, P.P. (2024) Applying machine learning approaches to evaluate microendemicity and conservation risk in cave-dwelling arachnofauna. Conservation Genetics [PDF] (^undergraduate coauthor)
121. *de Miranda, G.S., *Kulkarni, S.S., Tagliatela, J., Baker, C.M., Giupponi, A.P.L., Labarque, F.M., Gavish-Regev, E., Rix, M.G., Carvalho, L.S., Fusari, L.M., Wood, H.M., Sharma, P.P. (2024) The rediscovery of a relict unlocks the first global phylogeny of whip spiders (Amblypygi). Systematic Biology syae021. [PDF] (*equal author contribution)
120. Gerges, M.M., Mehana, A.E., Rahmy, T.R., Sharma, P.P., Abdel-Rahman, M.A. (2024) Cytotoxic activity and mechanism of action of Smp43 scorpion peptide against colorectal cancer cell line HCT-116. Toxin Reviews [PDF]
119. Gainett, G., Klementz, B.C., ^Blaszczyk, P.O., Setton, E.V.W., Murayama, G.P., Willemart, R., Gavish-Regev, E., Sharma, P.P. (2024) Vestigial organs alter fossil placements in an ancient group of terrestrial chelicerates. Current Biology 34:1258-1270. [PDF] [Featured on the journal cover] [Featured in The New York Times] [Featured in Smithsonian Magazine] [Featured on Wisconsin Public Radio] [Featured in The Daily Cardinal] (^undergraduate co-author)
118. *Gainett, G., *Klementz, B.C., Setton, E.V.W., Simian, C., Iuri, H.A., Edgecombe, G.D., Peretti, A.V., Sharma, P.P. (2024) A plurality of morphological characters need not equate with phylogenetic accuracy: A rare genomic change refutes the placement of Solifugae and Pseudoscorpiones in Haplocnemata. (*equal author contribution). Evolution & Development 26:e12467 [PDF].
117. Kulkarni, S.S., Yamasaki, T., Hong Phung, L.T., Karuaera, N., Daniels, S.R., Gavish-Regev, E., Sharma, P.P. (2024) Phylogenomic data reveal three new families of poorly studied Solifugae (camel spiders). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 191:107989. [PDF]
116. Klementz, B.C., Sharma, P.P. (2023) New species of Paktongius Suzuki, 1969 (Opiliones: Laniatores: Assamiidae) and convergent evolution of the gonyleptid habitus in Southeast Asian Assamiidae. Zootaxa 5389:34-54. [PDF]
115. Warburg, S., Aharon, S., Armiach Steinpress, I., Sharma, P.P., Harms, D., Gavish-Regev, E. (2023) Pseudoscorpions of Israel: Annotated checklist and key, with new records of two families (Arachnida: Pseudoscorpiones). Taxonomy 3:466-495. [PDF]
114. Kulkarni, S.S., *Steiner, H.G., Garcia, E.L., Iuri, H., Jones, R.R., Ballesteros, J.A., Gainett, G., Graham, M.R., Harms, D., Lyle, R., Ojanguren-Affilastro, A.A., Santibañez-López, C.E., Silva de Miranda, G., Cushing, P.E., Gavish-Regev, E., Sharma, P.P. (2023) Neglected no longer: Phylogenomic resolution of higher- level relationships in Solifugae. iScience 26:107684. (*undergraduate co-author) [PDF]
113. Santibáñez-López, C.E., Ojanguren-Affilastro, A.A., Graham, M.R., Sharma, P.P. (2023) Congruence between ultraconserved element-based matrices and phylotranscriptomic datasets in the scorpion tree of life. Cladistics 39:533-547. [PDF]
112. Sharma, P.P. (2023) Impacts of whole genome duplication on the evolution of the arachnids. Integrative and Comparative Biology 63:825-842. [PDF]
111. Sharma, P.P. (2023) Duplication and evolution of Hox clusters in Chelicerata (Arthropoda). In: Ferrier, D.E.K., (ed.). Hox modules in Evolution and Development. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, Taylor Francis Group, pp. 77-102. [PDF]
110. Gainett, G., *Klementz, B.C., *Błaszczyk, P.O., Bruce, H.S., Patel, N.D., Sharma, P.P. (2023) Dual functions of labial resolve the Hox logic of chelicerate head segments. Molecular Biology and Evolution 40:msad037. (*undergraduate co-author) [PDF]
109. Aharon, S., Ballesteros, J.A., Gainett, G., Sharma, P.P., Hawlena, D., Gavish-Regev, E. (2023) In the land of the blind: Exceptional subterranean speciation of cryptic troglobitic spiders of the genus Tegenaria (Araneae: Agelenidae) in Israel. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 182:107705. [PDF]
108. Palmieri, L., Giribet, G., Sharma, P.P. (2023) Too early for the ferry: The biogeographic history of the Assamiidae of southeast Asia (Chelicerata: Opiliones, Laniatores). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 78:107647. [PDF]
107. Bartel, C., Dunlop, J.A., Sharma, P.P., Selden, P.A., Tarasov, P.E., Ren, D. (2023) Four new Laniatorean harvestmen (Arachnida: Opiliones) from mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber. Palaeoworld 32:124-135. [PDF]
106. Palmieri, L., Pavarini, R., Sharma, P.P. (2022) Draft genome sequence of Candidatus Nardonella dryophthoridicola NARMHE1, endosymbiont of Metamasius hemipterus (Coleoptera, Curculionidae, Dryophthorinae). Microbiology Resource Announcements 11:11. [PDF]
105. Palmieri Rocha, L., Chamorro, M.L., Sharma, P.P. (2022) Phylogenetic assessment of the Metamasius hemipterus species complex (Coleoptera, Curculionidae, Dryophthorinae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 175:107589. [PDF]
104. Baker, C.M., Ballesteros, J.A., Aharon, S., Gainett, G., Armiach Steinpress, I., Wizen, G., Sharma, P.P., Gavish-Regev, E. (2022) Recent speciation and phenotypic plasticity within a parthenogenetic lineage of levantine whip spiders (Chelicerata: Amblypygi: Charinidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 175:107560. [PDF]
103. Santibáñez-López, C.E., Aharon, S., Ballesteros, J.A., Gainett, G., Baker, C.M., González-Santillán, E., Harvey, M.S., Hassan, M.K., Abu-Almaaty, A.H., Aldeyarbi, S.M., Monod, L., Ojanguren-Affilastro, A., Raven, R.J., Pinto-da-Roca, R., Zvik, Y., Gavish-Revev, E., Sharma, P.P. (2022) Phylogenomics of scorpions reveal contemporaneous diversification of scorpion mammalian predators and mammal-specific sodium channel toxins. Systematic Biology. (doi: 10.1093/sysbio/syac021) [PDF]
102. *Gainett, G., *^Crawford, A.R., ^Klementz, B.C., ^So, C., Baker, C.M., Setton, E.V.W., Sharma, P.P. (2022) Eggs to longlegs: Embryonic staging of the harvestman Phalangium opilio (Opiliones), an emerging model arachnid. Frontiers in Zoology 19:11. [PDF] (*equal author contribution) (^undergraduate co-author)
101. Ballesteros, J.A., Santibáñez-López, C.E., Baker, C.M., Benavides, L.R., Cunha, T.J., Gainett, G., Ontano, A.Z., Setton, E.V.W., Arango, C.P., Gavish-Regev, E., Harvey, M.S., Wheeler, W.C., Hormiga, G., Giribet, G., Sharma, P.P. (2022) Comprehensive species sampling and sophisticated algorithmic approaches refute the monophyly of Arachnida. Molecular Biology and Evolution 39(2):msac021 [PDF] [Featured in the New York Times]
100. Ontano, A.Z., *Steiner, H.G., Sharma P.P. (2022) How many long branch orders occur in Chelicerata? Opposing effects of Palpigradi and Opilioacariformes on phylogenetic stability. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 168:107378. [PDF] (*undergraduate co-author)
99. Sharma, P.P., Ballesteros, J.A., Santibáñez-López, C.E. (2021) What is an “arachnid”? Consensus, consilience, and confirmation bias in the phylogenetics of Chelicerata. Diversity 13:568. [PDF] [Highlighted by the journal]
98. Gainett, G., González, V.L., Ballesteros, J.A., Setton, E.V.W., Baker, C.M., Barolo Gargiulo, L., Santibáñez-López, C.E., Coddington, J.A., Sharma, P.P. (2021) The genome of a daddy-long-legs (Opiliones) illuminates the evolution of arachnid appendages. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 288:20211168. [PDF] [Featured on the journal cover] [Featured in Nature] [Featured in Science] [Featured in the New York Times] [Featured in The Atlantic] [Featured on National Public Radio]
97. Cotoras, D.D., Castanheira, P.d.S., Sharma, P.P.. (2021) A cheliceral axial duplication in the long-jawed orb-weaving spider Tetragnatha versicolor (Araneae: Tetragnathidae). Development Genes and Evolution (doi: 10.1007/s00427-021-00678-9) [PDF]
96. Baudouin-González, L., Schoenaeur, A., Harper, A., Blakely, G., Seiter, M., Arif, S., Summer-Rooney, L., Russel, S., Sharma, P.P., McGregor, A.P. (2021) The evolution of Sox gene repertoires and regulation of segmentation in arachnids. Molecular Biology and Evolution 38:3153–3169 [PDF]
95. Setton, E.V.W., Sharma, P.P. (2021) A conserved role for arrow in posterior axis patterning across Arthropoda. Developmental Biology 475:91-105. [PDF]
94. Ontano, A.Z., Gainett, G., Aharon, S., Ballesteros, J.A., Benavides, L.R., *Corbett, K.F., Gavish-Regev, E., Harvey, M.S., Monsma, S., Santibáñez-López, C.E., Setton, E.V.W., *Zehms, J.T., Zeh, J.A., Zeh, D.W., Sharma, P.P. (2021) Taxonomic sampling and rare genomic changes overcome long-branch attraction in the phylogenetic placement of pseudoscorpions. Molecular Biology and Evolution 38:2446-2467. (*undergraduate co-author) [PDF]
93. *Ballesteros, J.A., *Setton, E.V.W., *Santibáñez-López, C.E., Arango, C.P., Brenneis, G., Brix, S., Cano-Sánchez, E., ^Corbett, K.F., ^Dandouch, M., Dilly, G.F., Eleaume, M., Gainett, G., Gallut, C., ^McAtee, S., ^McIntyre, L., Moran, A.L., ^Moran, R., López-González, P.J., Scholtz, G., ^Williamson, C., Woods, H.A., ^Zehms, J.T., Wheeler, W.C., Sharma, P.P. (2020) Phylogenomic resolution of sea spider diversification through integration of multiple data classes. Molecular Biology and Evolution 38(2):686-701. [PDF] (*Equal author contribution) (^undergraduate co-author) [Featured in Science]
92. Giribet, G., Baker, C.M., Sharma, P.P. (2021) A revised phylogeny of the New Caledonian endemic genus Troglosiro (Opiliones : Cyphophthalmi : Troglosironidae) with the description of four new species. Invertebrate Systematics 35:59-89. [PDF]
91. Bartel, C., Dunlop, J.A., Sharma, P.P., Selden, P.A., Ren, D., Shi C. (2021) Laniatorid harvestmen (Arachnida) from Late Cretaceous Burmese amber. Cretaceous Research 119:104703. [PDF]
90. Dehnert, G.K., Freitas, M., Sharma, P.P., Barry, T., Karasov, W.H. (2021) Impacts of sub-chronic exposure to a commercial 2,4-D herbicide on developmental stages of multiple freshwater fish species. Chemosphere 263:127638. [PDF]
89. *Gainett, G., *Ballesteros, J.A., Kanzler, C.R., ^Zehms, J.T., ^Zern, J.M., Aharon, S., Gavish-Regev, E., Sharma, P.P. (2020) Systemic paralogy and function of retinal determination network homologs in arachnids. (*Equal author contribution) BMC Genomics 21:811. [PDF] (^undergraduate co-author)
88. Gainett, G., Willemart, R.H., Giribet, G., Sharma, P.P. (2020) Convergent evolution of sexually dimorphic glands in an amphi-Pacific harvestman family. Invertebrate Systematics 34:871-892. [PDF]
87. Brenneis, G., Arango, C.P., Sharma, P.P., Schwentner, M. (2020) The more the merrier: Unparalleled sympatric species richness in a sea spider genus (Pycnogonida: Callipallenidae: Pallenella) from Tasmanian waters. Invertebrate Systematics 34:837-870. [PDF] [Featured on the journal cover]
86. Gainett, G., Sharma, P.P. (2020) New genomic resources and toolkits for developmental study of whip spiders (Amblypygi) provide insights into arachnid genome evolution and antenniform leg patterning. EvoDevo 11:18. [PDF]
85. *Schmidt, S.M., Clouse, R.M., Sharma, P.P. (2020) A new Miopsalis from Mindanao supports a biogeographic umbilicus between Borneo and the southern Philippines (Arachnida: Opiliones: Cyphophthalmi: Stylocellidae). Zootaxa 4779:379-390. [PDF] (*undergraduate co-author)
84. Cano-Sánchez, E., Sharma, P.P., López-González, P.J. (2020) Postembryonic development of Nymphon australe Hodgson, 1902 (Pycnogonida, Nymphonidae) from Antarctica. Polar Biology 43:207-223. [PDF]
83. Santibanez-López, C.E., Ojanguren-Affilastro, A.A., Sharma, P.P. (2020) Another one bites the dust: taxonomic sampling of a key genus in phylogenomic datasets reveals more non-monophyletic groups in traditional scorpion classification. Invertebrate Systematics 34:133-143. [PDF]
82. Nolan, E.D., Santibáñez-López, C.E., Sharma, P.P. (2020) Developmental gene expression as a phylogenetic data class: Support for the monophyly of Arachnopulmonata. Development Genes and Evolution 230:137-153. [PDF] [Featured on the journal cover]
81.*Ballesteros, J.A., *Santibáñez-López, C.E, Kováč, L', Gavish-Regev, E., Sharma, P.P. (2019) Ordered phylogenomic subsampling enables diagnosis of systematic errors in the placement of the enigmatic arachnid order Palpigradi. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B: Biological Sciences 286:20192426. [PDF] (*Equal author contribution)
80. Santibáñez-López, C.E, Graham, M.R., Sharma, P.P., Ortiz, E., Possani, L. (2019) Comparative transcriptomic analysis reveals evolutionary conservation and selective pressures in hadrurid scorpion toxins. Toxins 11:637. [PDF] [Featured on the journal cover]
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 33:697-717. [PDF] (*undergraduate co-author) [Featured on the journal cover]
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. (2019) Embryogenesis in a Colorado population of Aphonopelma hentzi (Girard, 1852), a promising system for the study of development (Araneae, Mygalomorphae, Theraphosidae). Journal of Arachnology 47:209-216. [PDF] [Featured on the journal cover]
76. Gainett, G., Sharma, P.P., Fernandes, N., Pinto-da-Rocha, R., Giribet, G. & Willemart, R.H. (2019) Evolution of a sensory cluster on the legs of Opiliones (Arachnida) informs multi-level phylogenetic relationships. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 187:143-165. [PDF]
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 68:896-917. [PDF] [Featured on the journal cover] [Featured in National Geographic]
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 127:813-822. [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)
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141. Setton, E.V.W., Neu, S.M., Laumer, E.L., Klementz, B.C., Wanninger, A., Sharma P.P., Brenneis, G. (in review) The arthropod labrum and sea spider proboscis represent outgrowths of an antero-median oral field.
140. Klementz, B.C., Neu, S.M., Laumer, E.L., Hinne, I., Setton, E.V.W., Verma, N., Hämmerle, M., Rallis, J., Barnett, A.A., Brenneis, G., Gulia-Nuss, M., Pavlopoulos, A., Sharma, P.P. (2026) Developmental system drift in the patterning of the arthropod tarsus. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 293:20252557. [PDF]
139. Bolton, S.J., Sharma, P.P. (2026, in press) Reconciling morphology with phylogenomics in Chelicerata (Arthropoda). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society.
138. Santibáñez-López, C.E., Sharma, P.P. (2026, in press) Advances in the phylogenomics of Neotropical scorpions. In: The Biology of Neotropical Scorpions (Eds: Lira, A., González-Santillán, E.). Springer Press.
137. Garcia, E.L., Ganem, Z., Kulkarni, S.S., Perl, I., Sharma, P.P., Gavish-Regev, E. (2026) Genomic insights unveil taxonomic incongruities and evolutionary origins of solifuges across the southern Levant. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 108554.
136. Bhoi, J.P., Mule, R., Savale, N., Sharma, P.P., Kulkarni, S.S. (2026) Ancient gene linkages and ultraconserved elements disentangle Acari interrelationships. iScience, 114616.
135. Lo-Man-Hung, N., Andrade, S.C., Sharma, P.P., Torres, T.T., Brown, F.D. (2025) Efficiency of five RNA extraction protocols for Grammostola actaeon (Pocock, 1903) small spinneret tissue samples. Journal of Arachnology 53:118-124. [PDF]
134. Hussein, S.I., Al-Awadhi, R.M., Nafie, M.S., Abdel-Nabi, I.M., Gerges, M.M., Sharma, P.P., Abdel-Rahman, M.A. (2025) Scorpion venom cytolytic peptide Smp43 induces caspase-dependent apoptosis in ovarian carcinoma cell line OVCAR-3. Egyptian Journal of Basic and Applied Sciences 12:300-316. [PDF]
133. Klementz, B.C., Kulkarni, S.S., Abshire, K.A., Sharma, P.P. (2025) Exploring genome architecture as a source of phylogenetic characters for resolving the apulmonate arachnid phylogeny. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 210:108380. [PDF]
132. Papadopoulos, N., Kulkarni, S.S., Fromm, B., Baranyi, C., Setton, E.V.W., Sharma, P.P., Wanninger, A., Brenneis, G. (2025) The genome of a sea spider corroborates a shared Hox cluster motif in arthropods with reduced posterior tagma. BMC Biology 23:196. [PDF] [Featured in The New York Times]
131. Abshire, K.M., Sharma, P.P. (2025) Embryonic staging of the brown garden snail Cornu aspersum (Gastropoda: Stylommatophora), an emerging model gastropod. Journal of Molluscan Studies 91:eyaf012. [PDF]
130. Klementz, B.C., Brenneis, G., Laumer, E.M., Neu, S.M., Harvey, M.S., Sharma, P.P. (2025) Evolution and homology of leg segments in Chelicerata: evo-devo solutions to century-old problems. Arthropod Structure and Development 87:101446. [PDF]
129. Hinne, I.A., Ciccotti, H.R., Wudarski, J., Pham, M.N., Sharma, A., McVicar, M.M., Faustino, B., Nuss, A.B., Sharma, P.P., Gulia-Nuss, M. (2025) Early embryonic development in the tick Ixodes scapularis suggests syncytial organization and cellularization before blastoderm formation. EvoDevo 16:4. [PDF]
128. Propistsova, E.A., Gainett, G., Chipman, A.D., Sharma, P.P., Gavish-Regev, E. (2025) Shedding light on the embryogenesis and eye development of the cave spider Tegenaria pagana C. L. Koch, 1840 (Araneae: Agelenidae). EvoDevo 16:2. [PDF]
127. Kulkarni, S.S., Klementz, B.C., Sharma, P.P. (2025) A chromosome-level genome of the giant vinegaroon Mastigoproctus giganteus exhibits the signature of pre-Silurian whole genome duplication. Journal of Heredity esae074. [PDF]
126. Sharma, P.P., Gavish-Regev, E. (2025) The evolutionary biology of Chelicerata. Annual Review of Entomology 70:143-163. [PDF]
125. ^Psenicnik, A.F., Ojanguren-Affilastro, A.A., Graham, M.R., Hassan, M.K., Abdel-Rahman, M.A., Sharma, P.P., Santibáñez-López, C.E. (2024) Optimizing scorpion toxin processing through artificial intelligence. Toxins 16:437. [PDF] (^undergraduate co-author)
124. Klementz, B.C., Brenneis, G., Hinne, I.A., ^Laumer, E.M., ^Neu, S.M., ^Hareid, G.M., Gainett, G., Setton, E.V.W., Simian, C., Vrech, D.E, Joyce, I., Barnett, A.A., Patel, N.H., Harvey, M.S., Peretti, A.V., Gulia-Nuss, M., Sharma, P.P. (2024) A novel expression domain of extradenticle underlies the evolutionary developmental origin of the chelicerate patella. Molecular Biology and Evolution 41:msae188. [PDF](^undergraduate co-author)
123. Setton, EV.W., Ballesteros, J.A., ^Blaszczyk, P.O., Klementz, B.C., Sharma, P.P. (2024) A taxon-restricted duplicate of Iroquois3 is required for patterning the spider waist. PLoS Biology 22(8):e3002771. [PDF] [Featured in Science] [Featured in EurekAlert!] [Featured in Cosmos Magazine] (^undergraduate co-author)
122. ^Steiner, H.G., Aharon, S., Ballesteros, J.A., Gainett, G., Gavish-Regev, E., Sharma, P.P. (2024) Applying machine learning approaches to evaluate microendemicity and conservation risk in cave-dwelling arachnofauna. Conservation Genetics [PDF] (^undergraduate coauthor)
121. *de Miranda, G.S., *Kulkarni, S.S., Tagliatela, J., Baker, C.M., Giupponi, A.P.L., Labarque, F.M., Gavish-Regev, E., Rix, M.G., Carvalho, L.S., Fusari, L.M., Wood, H.M., Sharma, P.P. (2024) The rediscovery of a relict unlocks the first global phylogeny of whip spiders (Amblypygi). Systematic Biology syae021. [PDF] (*equal author contribution)
120. Gerges, M.M., Mehana, A.E., Rahmy, T.R., Sharma, P.P., Abdel-Rahman, M.A. (2024) Cytotoxic activity and mechanism of action of Smp43 scorpion peptide against colorectal cancer cell line HCT-116. Toxin Reviews [PDF]
119. Gainett, G., Klementz, B.C., ^Blaszczyk, P.O., Setton, E.V.W., Murayama, G.P., Willemart, R., Gavish-Regev, E., Sharma, P.P. (2024) Vestigial organs alter fossil placements in an ancient group of terrestrial chelicerates. Current Biology 34:1258-1270. [PDF] [Featured on the journal cover] [Featured in The New York Times] [Featured in Smithsonian Magazine] [Featured on Wisconsin Public Radio] [Featured in The Daily Cardinal] (^undergraduate co-author)
118. *Gainett, G., *Klementz, B.C., Setton, E.V.W., Simian, C., Iuri, H.A., Edgecombe, G.D., Peretti, A.V., Sharma, P.P. (2024) A plurality of morphological characters need not equate with phylogenetic accuracy: A rare genomic change refutes the placement of Solifugae and Pseudoscorpiones in Haplocnemata. (*equal author contribution). Evolution & Development 26:e12467 [PDF].
117. Kulkarni, S.S., Yamasaki, T., Hong Phung, L.T., Karuaera, N., Daniels, S.R., Gavish-Regev, E., Sharma, P.P. (2024) Phylogenomic data reveal three new families of poorly studied Solifugae (camel spiders). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 191:107989. [PDF]
116. Klementz, B.C., Sharma, P.P. (2023) New species of Paktongius Suzuki, 1969 (Opiliones: Laniatores: Assamiidae) and convergent evolution of the gonyleptid habitus in Southeast Asian Assamiidae. Zootaxa 5389:34-54. [PDF]
115. Warburg, S., Aharon, S., Armiach Steinpress, I., Sharma, P.P., Harms, D., Gavish-Regev, E. (2023) Pseudoscorpions of Israel: Annotated checklist and key, with new records of two families (Arachnida: Pseudoscorpiones). Taxonomy 3:466-495. [PDF]
114. Kulkarni, S.S., *Steiner, H.G., Garcia, E.L., Iuri, H., Jones, R.R., Ballesteros, J.A., Gainett, G., Graham, M.R., Harms, D., Lyle, R., Ojanguren-Affilastro, A.A., Santibañez-López, C.E., Silva de Miranda, G., Cushing, P.E., Gavish-Regev, E., Sharma, P.P. (2023) Neglected no longer: Phylogenomic resolution of higher- level relationships in Solifugae. iScience 26:107684. (*undergraduate co-author) [PDF]
113. Santibáñez-López, C.E., Ojanguren-Affilastro, A.A., Graham, M.R., Sharma, P.P. (2023) Congruence between ultraconserved element-based matrices and phylotranscriptomic datasets in the scorpion tree of life. Cladistics 39:533-547. [PDF]
112. Sharma, P.P. (2023) Impacts of whole genome duplication on the evolution of the arachnids. Integrative and Comparative Biology 63:825-842. [PDF]
111. Sharma, P.P. (2023) Duplication and evolution of Hox clusters in Chelicerata (Arthropoda). In: Ferrier, D.E.K., (ed.). Hox modules in Evolution and Development. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, Taylor Francis Group, pp. 77-102. [PDF]
110. Gainett, G., *Klementz, B.C., *Błaszczyk, P.O., Bruce, H.S., Patel, N.D., Sharma, P.P. (2023) Dual functions of labial resolve the Hox logic of chelicerate head segments. Molecular Biology and Evolution 40:msad037. (*undergraduate co-author) [PDF]
109. Aharon, S., Ballesteros, J.A., Gainett, G., Sharma, P.P., Hawlena, D., Gavish-Regev, E. (2023) In the land of the blind: Exceptional subterranean speciation of cryptic troglobitic spiders of the genus Tegenaria (Araneae: Agelenidae) in Israel. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 182:107705. [PDF]
108. Palmieri, L., Giribet, G., Sharma, P.P. (2023) Too early for the ferry: The biogeographic history of the Assamiidae of southeast Asia (Chelicerata: Opiliones, Laniatores). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 78:107647. [PDF]
107. Bartel, C., Dunlop, J.A., Sharma, P.P., Selden, P.A., Tarasov, P.E., Ren, D. (2023) Four new Laniatorean harvestmen (Arachnida: Opiliones) from mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber. Palaeoworld 32:124-135. [PDF]
106. Palmieri, L., Pavarini, R., Sharma, P.P. (2022) Draft genome sequence of Candidatus Nardonella dryophthoridicola NARMHE1, endosymbiont of Metamasius hemipterus (Coleoptera, Curculionidae, Dryophthorinae). Microbiology Resource Announcements 11:11. [PDF]
105. Palmieri Rocha, L., Chamorro, M.L., Sharma, P.P. (2022) Phylogenetic assessment of the Metamasius hemipterus species complex (Coleoptera, Curculionidae, Dryophthorinae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 175:107589. [PDF]
104. Baker, C.M., Ballesteros, J.A., Aharon, S., Gainett, G., Armiach Steinpress, I., Wizen, G., Sharma, P.P., Gavish-Regev, E. (2022) Recent speciation and phenotypic plasticity within a parthenogenetic lineage of levantine whip spiders (Chelicerata: Amblypygi: Charinidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 175:107560. [PDF]
103. Santibáñez-López, C.E., Aharon, S., Ballesteros, J.A., Gainett, G., Baker, C.M., González-Santillán, E., Harvey, M.S., Hassan, M.K., Abu-Almaaty, A.H., Aldeyarbi, S.M., Monod, L., Ojanguren-Affilastro, A., Raven, R.J., Pinto-da-Roca, R., Zvik, Y., Gavish-Revev, E., Sharma, P.P. (2022) Phylogenomics of scorpions reveal contemporaneous diversification of scorpion mammalian predators and mammal-specific sodium channel toxins. Systematic Biology. (doi: 10.1093/sysbio/syac021) [PDF]
102. *Gainett, G., *^Crawford, A.R., ^Klementz, B.C., ^So, C., Baker, C.M., Setton, E.V.W., Sharma, P.P. (2022) Eggs to longlegs: Embryonic staging of the harvestman Phalangium opilio (Opiliones), an emerging model arachnid. Frontiers in Zoology 19:11. [PDF] (*equal author contribution) (^undergraduate co-author)
101. Ballesteros, J.A., Santibáñez-López, C.E., Baker, C.M., Benavides, L.R., Cunha, T.J., Gainett, G., Ontano, A.Z., Setton, E.V.W., Arango, C.P., Gavish-Regev, E., Harvey, M.S., Wheeler, W.C., Hormiga, G., Giribet, G., Sharma, P.P. (2022) Comprehensive species sampling and sophisticated algorithmic approaches refute the monophyly of Arachnida. Molecular Biology and Evolution 39(2):msac021 [PDF] [Featured in the New York Times]
100. Ontano, A.Z., *Steiner, H.G., Sharma P.P. (2022) How many long branch orders occur in Chelicerata? Opposing effects of Palpigradi and Opilioacariformes on phylogenetic stability. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 168:107378. [PDF] (*undergraduate co-author)
99. Sharma, P.P., Ballesteros, J.A., Santibáñez-López, C.E. (2021) What is an “arachnid”? Consensus, consilience, and confirmation bias in the phylogenetics of Chelicerata. Diversity 13:568. [PDF] [Highlighted by the journal]
98. Gainett, G., González, V.L., Ballesteros, J.A., Setton, E.V.W., Baker, C.M., Barolo Gargiulo, L., Santibáñez-López, C.E., Coddington, J.A., Sharma, P.P. (2021) The genome of a daddy-long-legs (Opiliones) illuminates the evolution of arachnid appendages. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 288:20211168. [PDF] [Featured on the journal cover] [Featured in Nature] [Featured in Science] [Featured in the New York Times] [Featured in The Atlantic] [Featured on National Public Radio]
97. Cotoras, D.D., Castanheira, P.d.S., Sharma, P.P.. (2021) A cheliceral axial duplication in the long-jawed orb-weaving spider Tetragnatha versicolor (Araneae: Tetragnathidae). Development Genes and Evolution (doi: 10.1007/s00427-021-00678-9) [PDF]
96. Baudouin-González, L., Schoenaeur, A., Harper, A., Blakely, G., Seiter, M., Arif, S., Summer-Rooney, L., Russel, S., Sharma, P.P., McGregor, A.P. (2021) The evolution of Sox gene repertoires and regulation of segmentation in arachnids. Molecular Biology and Evolution 38:3153–3169 [PDF]
95. Setton, E.V.W., Sharma, P.P. (2021) A conserved role for arrow in posterior axis patterning across Arthropoda. Developmental Biology 475:91-105. [PDF]
94. Ontano, A.Z., Gainett, G., Aharon, S., Ballesteros, J.A., Benavides, L.R., *Corbett, K.F., Gavish-Regev, E., Harvey, M.S., Monsma, S., Santibáñez-López, C.E., Setton, E.V.W., *Zehms, J.T., Zeh, J.A., Zeh, D.W., Sharma, P.P. (2021) Taxonomic sampling and rare genomic changes overcome long-branch attraction in the phylogenetic placement of pseudoscorpions. Molecular Biology and Evolution 38:2446-2467. (*undergraduate co-author) [PDF]
93. *Ballesteros, J.A., *Setton, E.V.W., *Santibáñez-López, C.E., Arango, C.P., Brenneis, G., Brix, S., Cano-Sánchez, E., ^Corbett, K.F., ^Dandouch, M., Dilly, G.F., Eleaume, M., Gainett, G., Gallut, C., ^McAtee, S., ^McIntyre, L., Moran, A.L., ^Moran, R., López-González, P.J., Scholtz, G., ^Williamson, C., Woods, H.A., ^Zehms, J.T., Wheeler, W.C., Sharma, P.P. (2020) Phylogenomic resolution of sea spider diversification through integration of multiple data classes. Molecular Biology and Evolution 38(2):686-701. [PDF] (*Equal author contribution) (^undergraduate co-author) [Featured in Science]
92. Giribet, G., Baker, C.M., Sharma, P.P. (2021) A revised phylogeny of the New Caledonian endemic genus Troglosiro (Opiliones : Cyphophthalmi : Troglosironidae) with the description of four new species. Invertebrate Systematics 35:59-89. [PDF]
91. Bartel, C., Dunlop, J.A., Sharma, P.P., Selden, P.A., Ren, D., Shi C. (2021) Laniatorid harvestmen (Arachnida) from Late Cretaceous Burmese amber. Cretaceous Research 119:104703. [PDF]
90. Dehnert, G.K., Freitas, M., Sharma, P.P., Barry, T., Karasov, W.H. (2021) Impacts of sub-chronic exposure to a commercial 2,4-D herbicide on developmental stages of multiple freshwater fish species. Chemosphere 263:127638. [PDF]
89. *Gainett, G., *Ballesteros, J.A., Kanzler, C.R., ^Zehms, J.T., ^Zern, J.M., Aharon, S., Gavish-Regev, E., Sharma, P.P. (2020) Systemic paralogy and function of retinal determination network homologs in arachnids. (*Equal author contribution) BMC Genomics 21:811. [PDF] (^undergraduate co-author)
88. Gainett, G., Willemart, R.H., Giribet, G., Sharma, P.P. (2020) Convergent evolution of sexually dimorphic glands in an amphi-Pacific harvestman family. Invertebrate Systematics 34:871-892. [PDF]
87. Brenneis, G., Arango, C.P., Sharma, P.P., Schwentner, M. (2020) The more the merrier: Unparalleled sympatric species richness in a sea spider genus (Pycnogonida: Callipallenidae: Pallenella) from Tasmanian waters. Invertebrate Systematics 34:837-870. [PDF] [Featured on the journal cover]
86. Gainett, G., Sharma, P.P. (2020) New genomic resources and toolkits for developmental study of whip spiders (Amblypygi) provide insights into arachnid genome evolution and antenniform leg patterning. EvoDevo 11:18. [PDF]
85. *Schmidt, S.M., Clouse, R.M., Sharma, P.P. (2020) A new Miopsalis from Mindanao supports a biogeographic umbilicus between Borneo and the southern Philippines (Arachnida: Opiliones: Cyphophthalmi: Stylocellidae). Zootaxa 4779:379-390. [PDF] (*undergraduate co-author)
84. Cano-Sánchez, E., Sharma, P.P., López-González, P.J. (2020) Postembryonic development of Nymphon australe Hodgson, 1902 (Pycnogonida, Nymphonidae) from Antarctica. Polar Biology 43:207-223. [PDF]
83. Santibanez-López, C.E., Ojanguren-Affilastro, A.A., Sharma, P.P. (2020) Another one bites the dust: taxonomic sampling of a key genus in phylogenomic datasets reveals more non-monophyletic groups in traditional scorpion classification. Invertebrate Systematics 34:133-143. [PDF]
82. Nolan, E.D., Santibáñez-López, C.E., Sharma, P.P. (2020) Developmental gene expression as a phylogenetic data class: Support for the monophyly of Arachnopulmonata. Development Genes and Evolution 230:137-153. [PDF] [Featured on the journal cover]
81.*Ballesteros, J.A., *Santibáñez-López, C.E, Kováč, L', Gavish-Regev, E., Sharma, P.P. (2019) Ordered phylogenomic subsampling enables diagnosis of systematic errors in the placement of the enigmatic arachnid order Palpigradi. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B: Biological Sciences 286:20192426. [PDF] (*Equal author contribution)
80. Santibáñez-López, C.E, Graham, M.R., Sharma, P.P., Ortiz, E., Possani, L. (2019) Comparative transcriptomic analysis reveals evolutionary conservation and selective pressures in hadrurid scorpion toxins. Toxins 11:637. [PDF] [Featured on the journal cover]
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 33:697-717. [PDF] (*undergraduate co-author) [Featured on the journal cover]
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. (2019) Embryogenesis in a Colorado population of Aphonopelma hentzi (Girard, 1852), a promising system for the study of development (Araneae, Mygalomorphae, Theraphosidae). Journal of Arachnology 47:209-216. [PDF] [Featured on the journal cover]
76. Gainett, G., Sharma, P.P., Fernandes, N., Pinto-da-Rocha, R., Giribet, G. & Willemart, R.H. (2019) Evolution of a sensory cluster on the legs of Opiliones (Arachnida) informs multi-level phylogenetic relationships. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 187:143-165. [PDF]
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 68:896-917. [PDF] [Featured on the journal cover] [Featured in National Geographic]
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 127:813-822. [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)