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62. Gainett, G., Sharma, P.P., Giribet, G., Willemart, R.H. (submitted) Putative adhesive setae on the walking legs of the Paleotropical harvestman Metibalonius sp. (Arachnida: Opiliones: Podoctidae).
61. Daniels, S.R., Dreyer, M. & Sharma, P.P. (accepted) Contrasting the population genetic structure of two velvet worm taxa (Onychophora: Peripatopsidae: Peripatopsis) in forest fragments along the south eastern Cape, South Africa.
60. Sharma, P.P. (in press) Chelicerates and the conquest of land: A view of arachnid origins through an evodevo spyglass. Integrative and Comparative Biology.
59. Setton, E.V.W., Sharma, P.P. (in review) A conserved regulatory cassette specifies leg fate in the common ancestor of Arthropoda.
58. Di, Z., Edgecombe, G.D., Sharma, P.P. (in review) Homeosis in a scorpion supports a telopodal origin of pectines and book lungs.
57. *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. (in press) The house spider genome reveals a whole genome duplication during arachnid evolution. BMC Biology. (*equal author contribution)
56. *Setton, E.V.W., *March, L.E., *Nolan, E.D., Jones, T.E., Cho, H., Wheeler, W.C., Extavour, C.G. & Sharma, P.P. (in revision) Expression and function of spineless orthologs correlate with distal deutocerebral appendage morphology in Arthropoda. Developmental biology. (*undergraduate co-author)
55. Sharma, P.P., Baker, C.M., Cosgrove, J.G., Johnson, J.E., Oberski, J.T., Raven, R.J., Harvey, M.S. & Boyer, S.L. (in revision) Testing the phylogenomic position and age of the temperate Gondwanan family Bothriuridae in the scorpion tree of life. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution.
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. (in press) First molecular phylogeny of two arachnid orders (Schizomida and Uropygi) supports a tropical Pangean origin and mid-Cretaceous diversification. Journal of Biogeography.
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. (*equal author contribution). Invertebrate Systematics 31:233-248. [PDF]
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. (doi: 10.1111/zoj.12419)
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. (2014) 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.
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]
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)
27. Riesgo, A., Novo, M., Sharma, P.P., *Peterson, M., Maldonado, M. & Giribet, G. (2013) Inferring the ancestral sexuality and reproductive condition in sponges (Porifera). Zoologica Scripta 43:101-117. [PDF] (*undergraduate co-author)
26. Sharma, P.P., Zardus, J.D., Boyle, E.E., González, V.L., Jennings, R.M., McIntyre, E., Wheeler, W.C., Etter, R.J. & Giribet, G. (2013) Into the deep: A phylogenetic approach to the bivalve subclass Protobranchia. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 69: 188-204. [PDF]
25. Clouse, R.M., Sharma, P.P., Giribet, G. & Wheeler, W.C. (2013) Elongation factor-1a, a putative single-copy nuclear gene, has divergent sets of paralogs in an arachnid. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 68: 471-481. [PDF]
24. Sharma, P.P. & Wheeler, W.C. (2013) Revenant clades in historical biogeography: the geology of New Zealand predisposes endemic clades to root age shifts. Journal of Biogeography 40: 1609-1618. [PDF]
23. Sharma, P.P., Schwager, E.E., Giribet, G., Jocksuch, E.L. & Extavour, C.G. (2013) Distal-less and dachshund pattern both plesiomorphic and apomorphic structures in chelicerates: RNA interference in the harvestman Phalangium opilio (Opiliones). Evolution and Development 15: 228-242. [Featured on the journal cover] [PDF]
22. Riesgo, A., Andrade, S.C.S., Sharma, P.P., Novo, M., Pérez-Porro, A.R., Vahtera, V., González, V.L., Kawauchi, G.Y. & Giribet, G. (2012) Comparative description of ten transcriptomes of newly sequenced invertebrates and efficiency estimation of genomic sampling in non-model taxa. Frontiers in Zoology 9: 33. [Highly accessed] [PDF]
21. Sharma, P.P., Schwager, E.E., Extavour, C.G. & Giribet, G. (2012) Evolution of the chelicera: a dachshund domain is retained in the deutocerebral appendage of Opiliones (Arthropoda, Chelicerata). Evolution and Development 14: 522-533. [Recommended by the Faculty of 1000] [PDF]
20. Sharma, P.P., Schwager, E.E., Extavour, C.G. & Giribet, G. (2012) Hox gene expression in the harvestman Phalangium opilio reveals divergent patterning of the chelicerate opisthosoma. Evolution and Development 14: 450-463. [PDF]
19. Sharma, P.P., Gonzalez, V.L., Kawauchi, G.Y., Andrade, S.C.S., Guzmán, A., Collins, T.M., Glover, E.A., Harper, E.M., Healy, J.M., Mikkelsen, P.M., Taylor, J.D., Bieler, R. & Giribet, G. (2012) The case against mitochondrial gene phylogenies for inferring ancient relationships: phylogenetic analysis of four protein-encoding genes largely corroborates the traditional classification of Bivalvia (Mollusca). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 65: 64-74. [PDF]
18. Sharma, P.P. & Giribet, G. (2012) Out of the Neotropics: Late Cretaceous colonization of Australasia by American arthropods. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B: Biological Sciences 279: 3501-3509. [Featured in the Harvard Gazette] [Highlighted in Nature] [PDF]
17. Sharma, P.P., Buenavente, P.A.C., Clouse, R.M., Diesmos, A.C. & Giribet, G. (2012) Forgotten gods: Zalmoxidae of the Philippines and Borneo (Opiliones: Laniatores). Zootaxa 3280: 29-55. [compressed PDF]
16. Sharma, P.P. (2012) New Australasian Zalmoxidae (Opiliones: Laniatores) and a new case of male polymorphism in Opiliones. Zootaxa 3236: 1-35. [PDF]
15. Kawauchi, G.Y., Sharma, P.P. & Giribet, G. (2012) Sipunculan phylogeny based on six genes, with a new classification and the descriptions of two new families. Zoologica Scripta 41: 186-210. [PDF]
14. Giribet, G., Sharma, P.P., Benavides, L.R., Boyer, S.L., Clouse, R.M., de Bivort, B.L., Kawauchi, G.Y., Murienne, J. & Schwendinger, P.J. (2012) Evolutionary and biogeographic history of the harvestman suborder Cyphophthalmi (Arachnida, Opiliones) – an ancient and global group of arachnids. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 105: 92-130. [compressed PDF]
13. Sharma, P.P., Prieto, C.E. & Giribet, G. (2011) A new family of Laniatores (Arachnida: Opiliones) from the Afrotropics. Invertebrate Systematics 25: 143-154. [PDF]
12. Sharma, P.P. & Giribet, G. (2011) The evolutionary and biogeographic history of the armoured harvestmen—Laniatores phylogeny based on ten molecular markers, with the description of two new families of Opiliones (Arachnida). Invertebrate Systematics 25: 106-142. [Featured on the journal cover] [compressed PDF]
11. Sharma, P.P., Vahtera, V., Kawauchi, G. & Giribet, G. (2011) Running wILD: The case for exploring mixed parameter sets in sensitivity analysis. Cladistics 27: 538-549. [PDF]
10. Sharma, P.P., Kury, A.B. & Giribet G. (2011) The Zalmoxidae (Arachnida: Opiliones: Laniatores) of the Paleotropics: a catalogue of Southeast Asian and Indo-Pacific species. Zootaxa 2972: 37-58. [PDF]
9. Giribet, G., Vogt, L., González, A.P., Sharma, P. & Kury, A.B. (2010) A multilocus approach to harvestmen (Arachnida: Opiliones) phylogeny with emphasis on biogeography and the systematics of Laniatores. Cladistics 26: 408-437. [PDF]
8. Sharma, P. & Giribet, G. (2009) Sandokanid phylogeny based on eight molecular markers—The evolution of a southeast Asian endemic family of Laniatores (Arachnida, Opiliones). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 52: 432-447. [PDF]
7. Sharma, P. & Giribet, G. (2009) A relict in New Caledonia: phylogenetic relationships of the family Troglosironidae (Opiliones: Cyphophthalmi). Cladistics 25: 279-294. [PDF]
6. Sharma, P., Karunarathna, I. & Giribet, G. (2009) On the endemic Sri Lankan genus Pettalus (Opiliones, Cyphophthalmi, Pettalidae) with the description of a new species and a discussion on the magnitude of its diversity. The Journal of Arachnology 37: 60-67. [PDF]
5. Sharma, P.P. & Giribet, G. (2009) The family Troglosironidae (Opiliones: Cyphophthalmi) of New Caledonia. In: Zoologia Neocaledonica 6, Systematics and Biodiversity in New Caledonia. Mémoirs du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle 196: 83-123. [PDF]
4. Giribet, G., Sharma, P.P. & Bastawade, D. (2007) A new genus and species of Cyphophthalmi (Arachnida, Opiliones) from the north-eastern states of India. Zoological Journal of the Linnaean Society 151: 663-670. [PDF]
3. Boyer, S.L., Clouse, R.M., Benavides, L.R., Sharma, P., Schwendinger, P.J., Karunarathna, I. & Giribet, G. (2007) Biogeography of the world: a case study of globally distributed arachnids. Journal of Biogeography 34: 2070-2085. [PDF]
2. Sharma, P. & Giribet, G. (2006) A new Pettalus species (Opiliones, Cyphophthalmi, Pettalidae) from Sri Lanka with a discussion on the evolution of eyes in Cyphophthalmi. The Journal of Arachnology 34: 331-341. [PDF]
1. Sharma, P. & Giribet, G. (2005) A new Troglosiro species (Opiliones, Cyphophthalmi, Troglosironidae) from New Caledonia. Zootaxa 1053: 47–60. [PDF]
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61. Daniels, S.R., Dreyer, M. & Sharma, P.P. (accepted) Contrasting the population genetic structure of two velvet worm taxa (Onychophora: Peripatopsidae: Peripatopsis) in forest fragments along the south eastern Cape, South Africa.
60. Sharma, P.P. (in press) Chelicerates and the conquest of land: A view of arachnid origins through an evodevo spyglass. Integrative and Comparative Biology.
59. Setton, E.V.W., Sharma, P.P. (in review) A conserved regulatory cassette specifies leg fate in the common ancestor of Arthropoda.
58. Di, Z., Edgecombe, G.D., Sharma, P.P. (in review) Homeosis in a scorpion supports a telopodal origin of pectines and book lungs.
57. *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. (in press) The house spider genome reveals a whole genome duplication during arachnid evolution. BMC Biology. (*equal author contribution)
56. *Setton, E.V.W., *March, L.E., *Nolan, E.D., Jones, T.E., Cho, H., Wheeler, W.C., Extavour, C.G. & Sharma, P.P. (in revision) Expression and function of spineless orthologs correlate with distal deutocerebral appendage morphology in Arthropoda. Developmental biology. (*undergraduate co-author)
55. Sharma, P.P., Baker, C.M., Cosgrove, J.G., Johnson, J.E., Oberski, J.T., Raven, R.J., Harvey, M.S. & Boyer, S.L. (in revision) Testing the phylogenomic position and age of the temperate Gondwanan family Bothriuridae in the scorpion tree of life. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution.
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. (in press) First molecular phylogeny of two arachnid orders (Schizomida and Uropygi) supports a tropical Pangean origin and mid-Cretaceous diversification. Journal of Biogeography.
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. (*equal author contribution). Invertebrate Systematics 31:233-248. [PDF]
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. (doi: 10.1111/zoj.12419)
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. (2014) 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.
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]
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)
27. Riesgo, A., Novo, M., Sharma, P.P., *Peterson, M., Maldonado, M. & Giribet, G. (2013) Inferring the ancestral sexuality and reproductive condition in sponges (Porifera). Zoologica Scripta 43:101-117. [PDF] (*undergraduate co-author)
26. Sharma, P.P., Zardus, J.D., Boyle, E.E., González, V.L., Jennings, R.M., McIntyre, E., Wheeler, W.C., Etter, R.J. & Giribet, G. (2013) Into the deep: A phylogenetic approach to the bivalve subclass Protobranchia. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 69: 188-204. [PDF]
25. Clouse, R.M., Sharma, P.P., Giribet, G. & Wheeler, W.C. (2013) Elongation factor-1a, a putative single-copy nuclear gene, has divergent sets of paralogs in an arachnid. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 68: 471-481. [PDF]
24. Sharma, P.P. & Wheeler, W.C. (2013) Revenant clades in historical biogeography: the geology of New Zealand predisposes endemic clades to root age shifts. Journal of Biogeography 40: 1609-1618. [PDF]
23. Sharma, P.P., Schwager, E.E., Giribet, G., Jocksuch, E.L. & Extavour, C.G. (2013) Distal-less and dachshund pattern both plesiomorphic and apomorphic structures in chelicerates: RNA interference in the harvestman Phalangium opilio (Opiliones). Evolution and Development 15: 228-242. [Featured on the journal cover] [PDF]
22. Riesgo, A., Andrade, S.C.S., Sharma, P.P., Novo, M., Pérez-Porro, A.R., Vahtera, V., González, V.L., Kawauchi, G.Y. & Giribet, G. (2012) Comparative description of ten transcriptomes of newly sequenced invertebrates and efficiency estimation of genomic sampling in non-model taxa. Frontiers in Zoology 9: 33. [Highly accessed] [PDF]
21. Sharma, P.P., Schwager, E.E., Extavour, C.G. & Giribet, G. (2012) Evolution of the chelicera: a dachshund domain is retained in the deutocerebral appendage of Opiliones (Arthropoda, Chelicerata). Evolution and Development 14: 522-533. [Recommended by the Faculty of 1000] [PDF]
20. Sharma, P.P., Schwager, E.E., Extavour, C.G. & Giribet, G. (2012) Hox gene expression in the harvestman Phalangium opilio reveals divergent patterning of the chelicerate opisthosoma. Evolution and Development 14: 450-463. [PDF]
19. Sharma, P.P., Gonzalez, V.L., Kawauchi, G.Y., Andrade, S.C.S., Guzmán, A., Collins, T.M., Glover, E.A., Harper, E.M., Healy, J.M., Mikkelsen, P.M., Taylor, J.D., Bieler, R. & Giribet, G. (2012) The case against mitochondrial gene phylogenies for inferring ancient relationships: phylogenetic analysis of four protein-encoding genes largely corroborates the traditional classification of Bivalvia (Mollusca). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 65: 64-74. [PDF]
18. Sharma, P.P. & Giribet, G. (2012) Out of the Neotropics: Late Cretaceous colonization of Australasia by American arthropods. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B: Biological Sciences 279: 3501-3509. [Featured in the Harvard Gazette] [Highlighted in Nature] [PDF]
17. Sharma, P.P., Buenavente, P.A.C., Clouse, R.M., Diesmos, A.C. & Giribet, G. (2012) Forgotten gods: Zalmoxidae of the Philippines and Borneo (Opiliones: Laniatores). Zootaxa 3280: 29-55. [compressed PDF]
16. Sharma, P.P. (2012) New Australasian Zalmoxidae (Opiliones: Laniatores) and a new case of male polymorphism in Opiliones. Zootaxa 3236: 1-35. [PDF]
15. Kawauchi, G.Y., Sharma, P.P. & Giribet, G. (2012) Sipunculan phylogeny based on six genes, with a new classification and the descriptions of two new families. Zoologica Scripta 41: 186-210. [PDF]
14. Giribet, G., Sharma, P.P., Benavides, L.R., Boyer, S.L., Clouse, R.M., de Bivort, B.L., Kawauchi, G.Y., Murienne, J. & Schwendinger, P.J. (2012) Evolutionary and biogeographic history of the harvestman suborder Cyphophthalmi (Arachnida, Opiliones) – an ancient and global group of arachnids. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 105: 92-130. [compressed PDF]
13. Sharma, P.P., Prieto, C.E. & Giribet, G. (2011) A new family of Laniatores (Arachnida: Opiliones) from the Afrotropics. Invertebrate Systematics 25: 143-154. [PDF]
12. Sharma, P.P. & Giribet, G. (2011) The evolutionary and biogeographic history of the armoured harvestmen—Laniatores phylogeny based on ten molecular markers, with the description of two new families of Opiliones (Arachnida). Invertebrate Systematics 25: 106-142. [Featured on the journal cover] [compressed PDF]
11. Sharma, P.P., Vahtera, V., Kawauchi, G. & Giribet, G. (2011) Running wILD: The case for exploring mixed parameter sets in sensitivity analysis. Cladistics 27: 538-549. [PDF]
10. Sharma, P.P., Kury, A.B. & Giribet G. (2011) The Zalmoxidae (Arachnida: Opiliones: Laniatores) of the Paleotropics: a catalogue of Southeast Asian and Indo-Pacific species. Zootaxa 2972: 37-58. [PDF]
9. Giribet, G., Vogt, L., González, A.P., Sharma, P. & Kury, A.B. (2010) A multilocus approach to harvestmen (Arachnida: Opiliones) phylogeny with emphasis on biogeography and the systematics of Laniatores. Cladistics 26: 408-437. [PDF]
8. Sharma, P. & Giribet, G. (2009) Sandokanid phylogeny based on eight molecular markers—The evolution of a southeast Asian endemic family of Laniatores (Arachnida, Opiliones). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 52: 432-447. [PDF]
7. Sharma, P. & Giribet, G. (2009) A relict in New Caledonia: phylogenetic relationships of the family Troglosironidae (Opiliones: Cyphophthalmi). Cladistics 25: 279-294. [PDF]
6. Sharma, P., Karunarathna, I. & Giribet, G. (2009) On the endemic Sri Lankan genus Pettalus (Opiliones, Cyphophthalmi, Pettalidae) with the description of a new species and a discussion on the magnitude of its diversity. The Journal of Arachnology 37: 60-67. [PDF]
5. Sharma, P.P. & Giribet, G. (2009) The family Troglosironidae (Opiliones: Cyphophthalmi) of New Caledonia. In: Zoologia Neocaledonica 6, Systematics and Biodiversity in New Caledonia. Mémoirs du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle 196: 83-123. [PDF]
4. Giribet, G., Sharma, P.P. & Bastawade, D. (2007) A new genus and species of Cyphophthalmi (Arachnida, Opiliones) from the north-eastern states of India. Zoological Journal of the Linnaean Society 151: 663-670. [PDF]
3. Boyer, S.L., Clouse, R.M., Benavides, L.R., Sharma, P., Schwendinger, P.J., Karunarathna, I. & Giribet, G. (2007) Biogeography of the world: a case study of globally distributed arachnids. Journal of Biogeography 34: 2070-2085. [PDF]
2. Sharma, P. & Giribet, G. (2006) A new Pettalus species (Opiliones, Cyphophthalmi, Pettalidae) from Sri Lanka with a discussion on the evolution of eyes in Cyphophthalmi. The Journal of Arachnology 34: 331-341. [PDF]
1. Sharma, P. & Giribet, G. (2005) A new Troglosiro species (Opiliones, Cyphophthalmi, Troglosironidae) from New Caledonia. Zootaxa 1053: 47–60. [PDF]
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