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Publications by our CORE member Georg Mayer, Berlin, Melbourne, and now back in Germany

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2009

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2008

• Mayer, G. & Tait, N.N.: Position and development of oocytes in velvet worms shed light on the evolution of the ovary in Onychophora and Arthropoda. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. Accepted.
• Mayer G and Harzsch S (2008) Distribution of serotonin in the trunk of Metaperipatus blainvillei (Onychophora, Peripatopsidae): Implications for the evolution of the nervous system in Arthropoda. Journal of Comparative Neurology 507, 1196 –1208.
• Podsiadlowski L., Braband, A. and Mayer, G. 2008. The complete mitochondrial genome of the onychophoran Epiperipatus biolleyi reveals a unique transfer RNA set and provides further support for the Ecdysozoa hypothesis. Molecular Biology and Evolution 25, 42-51.

2007

• Mayer G and Harzsch S (2007) Immunolocalization of serotonin in Onychophora argues against segmental ganglia being an ancestral feature of arthropods. BMC Evolutionary Biology 7, 118.
• Mayer G (2007) Metaperipatus inae sp. nov. (Onychophora: Peripatopsidae) from Chile with a novel ovarian type and dermal insemination. Zootaxa 1440, 21-37.
• Maas A, Mayer G, Kristensen RM and Waloszek D (2007) A Cambrian micro-lobopodian and the evolution of arthropod locomotion and reproduction. Chinese Science Bulletin 52(24), 3385-3392.

2006

• Mayer, G. 2006 Origin and differentiation of nephridia in the Onychophora provide no support for the Articulata. Zoomorphology 125(1), 1-12.
• Mayer, G. 2006. Structure and development of onychophoran eyes: What is the ancestral visual organ in arthropods? Arthropod Structure & Development 35, 231-245.

2005

• Mayer, Georg & Koch, M. 2005. Ultrastructure and fate of the nephridial anlagen in the antennal segment of Epiperipatus biolleyi (Onychophora, Peripatidae) - evidence for the onychopohoran antennae being modified legs. Arthropod Structure & Development 34, 471-480. Amsterdam.
• Mayer, G., Bartolomaeus, T. & Ruhberg, H. 2005. Ultrastructure of mesoderm in embryos of Opisthopatus roseus (Onychophora, Peripatopsidae): revision of the “Long Germ Band” hypothesis for Opisthopatus. Journal of Morphology 263, 60-70. New York.

2004

• Mayer, G., Ruhberg, H. & Bartolomaeus, T. 2004. When an epithelium ceases to exist - an ultrastructural study on the fate of the embryonic coelom in Epiperipatus biolleyi (Onychophora, Peripatidae). Acta Zoologica (Stockholm) 85, 163-170. Oxford.

2003

• Mayer, G. & Bartolomaeus, T. (2003): Ciliary basal structures and their distribution in Rhabdopleura compacta (Pterobranchia). Meiofauna Marina 12: 85-95.
• Mayer, G. & Bartolomaeus, T. (2003): Ultrastructure of the stomochord and the heart-glomerulus complex in Rhabdopleura compacta (Pterobranchia): phylogenetic implications. Zoomorphology 122: 125-133.