Lozano-Fernandez, JesusTanner, Alastair R.Giacomelli, MattiaCarton, RobertVinther, JakobEdgecombe, Gregory D.Pisani, Davide2023-03-032023-03-0320192041-1723https://hdl.handle.net/2445/194562Chelicerates are a diverse group of arthropods, represented by such forms as predatory spiders and scorpions, parasitic ticks, humic detritivores, and marine sea spiders (pycnogo-nids) and horseshoe crabs. Conflicting phylogenetic relationships have been proposed for chelicerates based on both morphological and molecular data, the latter usually not recovering arachnids as a clade and instead finding horseshoe crabs nested inside terrestrial Arachnida. Here, using genomic-scale datasets and analyses optimised for countering systematic error, we find strong support for monophyletic Acari (ticks and mites), which when considered as a single group represent the most biodiverse chelicerate lineage. In addition, our analysis recovers marine forms (sea spiders and horseshoe crabs) as the successive sister groups of a monophyletic lineage of terrestrial arachnids, suggesting a single colonisation of land within Chelicerata and the absence of wholly secondarily marine arachnid orders.8 p.application/pdfengcc-by (c) Lozano-Fernandez, Jesus et al., 2019https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ArtròpodesAranyesArthropodaSpidersinfo:eu-repo/semantics/article7154072023-03-03info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess