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- 1From:BMC Biology (Vol. 20, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackground In recent years, Precambrian lifeforms have generated an ever-increasing interest because they revealed a rich eukaryotic diversity prior to the Cambrian explosion of modern animals. Among them, macroalgae...
- 2From:Nature (Vol. 586, Issue 7831) Peer-ReviewedEarly fossils with guts, segmented bodies and other sophisticated features reveal a revolution in animal life -- before the Cambrian explosion. These bizarre species are rewriting animal evolution Early fossils...
- 3From:Nature (Vol. 573, Issue 7772) Peer-ReviewedHalf-a-billion-year-old creature challenges theory that animals burst onto the scene in an abrupt event known as the Cambrian explosion. Half-a-billion-year-old creature challenges theory that animals burst onto the...
- 4From:PLoS Biology (Vol. 20, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedThe first animals appear during the late Ediacaran (572 to 541 Ma); an initial diversity increase was followed reduction in diversity, often interpreted as catastrophic mass extinction. We investigate Ediacaran ecosystem...
- 5From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 17, Issue 8) Peer-ReviewedThe burrow morphology of endobenthic organisms reflects their subsurface ecology. In this study, we observed the three-dimensional development of burrows produced by the tiger pistol shrimp Alpheus bellulus in a tank...
- 6From:PeerJ (Vol. 10) Peer-ReviewedThe Chengjiang biota (Yunnan Province, China) is a treasure trove of soft-bodied animal fossils from the earliest stages of the Cambrian explosion. The mechanisms contributing to its unique preservation, known as the...
- 7From:Nature (Vol. 567, Issue 7749) Peer-ReviewedDeposit in China rivals Canada's renowned Burgess Shale in its ?preservation of animals' soft tissue. Deposit in China rivals Canada's renowned Burgess Shale in its ?preservation of animals' soft tissue. Author...
- 8From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 16, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedLystrosaurus represents one of the most successful dicynodonts, a survivor of the end-Permian mass extinction that remained abundant in the Early Triassic, but many aspects of its paleobiology are still controversial....
- 9From:Human Genomics (Vol. 16, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedIntermediate filament (IntFil) genes arose during early metazoan evolution, to provide mechanical support for plasma membranes contacting/interacting with other cells and the extracellular matrix. Keratin genes comprise...
- 10From:Nature (Vol. 573, Issue 7775) Peer-ReviewedThe chelicerates are a ubiquitous and speciose group of animals that has a considerable ecological effect on modern terrestrial ecosystems--notably as predators of insects and also, for instance, as decomposers.sup.1....
- 11From:Acta Palaeontologica Polonica (Vol. 66, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedBulk sampling of middle Cambrian carbonate units in the lower Burgess Shale Formation (Wuliuan) and the upper Wheeler Formation (Drumian) in Utah have yielded abundant silicified stenothecoids. Previously unreported from...
- 12From:Science (Vol. 288, Issue 5468) Peer-ReviewedThe term Cambrian "explosion" describes the rapid diversification (on a geological timescale) of animals to form most of the major extant phyla. The fossil record of metazoa shows a sudden expansion at around 550-530...
- 13From:Nature Reviews Genetics (Vol. 14, Issue 11) Peer-ReviewedThe near-simultaneous appearance of most modern animal body plans in the Cambrian explosion suggests a brief interval of rapid phenotypic and genetic evolution, which Darwin believed were too fast to be explained by...
- 14From:Science (Vol. 246, Issue 4928) Peer-ReviewedBurgess Shale Faunas and the Cambrian Explosion THE FOSSIL RECORD MAY BE THE BOOK OF ORGANIC HISTORY, but like the worst of chroniclers, the scribe responsible suffers from shocking lapses of memory and much prefers...
- 15From:PeerJ (Vol. 8) Peer-ReviewedBiomineralised trilobite exoskeletons provide a 250 million year record of abnormalities in one of the most diverse arthropod groups in history. One type of abnormality-repaired injuries-have allowed palaeobiologists to...
- 16From:Nature (Vol. 588, Issue 7839) Peer-ReviewedThe hypothesis that destructive mass extinctions enable creative evolutionary radiations (creative destruction) is central to classic concepts of macroevolution.sup.1,2. However, the relative impacts of extinction and...
- 17From:Science (Vol. 293, Issue 5529) Peer-ReviewedThe beginning of the Cambrian period, some 545 million years ago, saw the sudden appearance in the fossil record of almost all the main types of animals (phyla) that still dominate the biota today. To be sure, there are...
- 18From:Science (Vol. 294, Issue 5549) Peer-ReviewedSiveter et al. (Reports, 20 July 2001, p. 479) described fossils of a phosphatocopid arthropod from Lower Cambrian strata in Shropshire, England, that provide "evidence for the occurrence of Crustacea, including...
- 19From:Nature (Vol. 530, Issue 7590) Peer-ReviewedAn evolutionary burst 540 million years ago filled the seas with an astonishing diversity of animals. The trigger for that revolution is finally coming into focus. A series of dark, craggy pinnacles rises 80 metres...
- 20From:Science (Vol. 279, Issue 5352) Peer-ReviewedNew fossils from china offer a first glimpse of familiar-looking animals before the Cambrian explotion 540 million years ago, and show how a full record of the animals might be assembled The origins of the tremendous...