The origin of the animals and a ‘Savannah’ hypothesis for early bilaterian evolution

The hemisessile lifestyle and feeding strategies of Iosactis vagabunda (Actiniaria, Iosactiidae), a dominant megafaunal species of the Porcupine Abyssal Plain

(2015) Jennifer M. Durden et al.   DEEP-SEA RESEARCH PART I-OCEANOGRAPHIC RESEARCH PAPERS

Ancestral state reconstruction of ontogeny supports a bilaterian affinity forDickinsonia

(2015) David A. Gold et al.   EVOLUTION & DEVELOPMENT

Remarkable insights into the paleoecology of the Avalonian Ediacaran macrobiota

(2015) Alexander G. Liu et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

Reconstructing the reproductive mode of an Ediacaran macro-organism

(2015) Emily G. Mitchell et al.   NATURE

Anomalocaridid trunk limb homology revealed by a giant filter-feeder with paired flaps

(2015) Peter Van Roy et al.   NATURE

Dickinsonia liftoff: Evidence of current derived morphologies

(2015) Scott D. Evans et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Early animal evolution and the origins of nervous systems

(2015) G. E. Budd   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Taphonomy of the Ediacaran Podolimirus and associated dipleurozoans from the Vendian of Ukraine

(2015) Jerzy Dzik et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

Paleoecology of the enigmatic Tribrachidium : New data from the Ediacaran of South Australia

(2015) Christine M.S. Hall et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

Biotic replacement and mass extinction of the Ediacara biota

(2015) Simon A. F. Darroch et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Exploring the potential of small RNA subunit and ITS sequences for resolving phylogenetic relationships within the phylum Ctenophora

(2015) Paul Simion et al.   ZOOLOGY

Did homeobox gene duplications contribute to the Cambrian explosion?

(2015) Peter W H Holland   Zoological Letters

Animal Phylogeny and Its Evolutionary Implications

(2014) Casey W. Dunn et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

The correlation between macroscopic algae and metazoans in the Ediacaran: a case study on the Wenghui biota in northeastern Guizhou, South China

(2014) Y. Wang et al.   AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF EARTH SCIENCES

Oxygen and animal evolution: Did a rise of atmospheric oxygen “trigger” the origin of animals?

(2014) Daniel B. Mills et al.   BIOESSAYS

Giving the early fossil record of sponges a squeeze

(2014) Jonathan B. Antcliffe et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Predation and the Origin of Neurones

(2014) Travis Monk et al.   BRAIN BEHAVIOR AND EVOLUTION

Evolution: Ctenophore Genomes and the Origin of Neurons

(2014) Heather Marlow et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Canopy Flow Analysis Reveals the Advantage of Size in the Oldest Communities of Multicellular Eukaryotes

(2014) Marco Ghisalberti et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Choanoflagellate and choanocyte collar-flagellar systems and the assumption of homology

(2014) Jasmine L. Mah et al.   EVOLUTION & DEVELOPMENT

Cambrian transgression and radiation linked to an Iapetus-Pacific oceanic connection?

(2014) Ian W.D. Dalziel   GEOLOGY

A review on deep molluscan phylogeny: old markers, integrative approaches, persistent problems

(2014) Michael Schrödl et al.   JOURNAL OF NATURAL HISTORY

The original molluscan radula and progenesis in Aplacophora revisited

(2014) Amélie H. Scheltema   JOURNAL OF NATURAL HISTORY

Patterns of Evolution of the Ediacaran Soft-Bodied Biota

(2014) Dmitriy Grazhdankin   JOURNAL OF PALEONTOLOGY

Taphonomy of the Ediacaran Fossil Pteridinium Simplex Preserved Three-Dimensionally in Mass Flow Deposits, Nama Group, Namibia

(2014) Mike Meyer et al.   JOURNAL OF PALEONTOLOGY

Scratch Traces of Large Ediacara Bilaterian Animals

(2014) James G. Gehling et al.   JOURNAL OF PALEONTOLOGY

The ctenophore genome and the evolutionary origins of neural systems

(2014) Leonid L. Moroz et al.   NATURE

Stabilization of the coupled oxygen and phosphorus cycles by the evolution of bioturbation

(2014) R. A. Boyle et al.   Nature Geoscience

The origins of molluscs

(2014) Jakob Vinther   PALAEONTOLOGY

A crown-group demosponge from the early Cambrian Sirius Passet Biota, North Greenland

(2014) Joseph P. Botting et al.   PALAEONTOLOGY

CONFIRMING THE METAZOAN CHARACTER OF A 565 MA TRACE-FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE FROM MISTAKEN POINT, NEWFOUNDLAND

(2014) A. G. LIU et al.   PALAIOS

Dendrogramma, New Genus, with Two New Non-Bilaterian Species from the Marine Bathyal of Southeastern Australia (Animalia, Metazoa incertae sedis) – with Similarities to Some Medusoids from the Precambrian Ediacara

(2014) Jean Just et al.   PLoS One

Fractal branching organizations of Ediacaran rangeomorph fronds reveal a lost Proterozoic body plan

(2014) J. F. Hoyal Cuthill et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Haootia quadriformis n. gen., n. sp., interpreted as a muscular cnidarian impression from the Late Ediacaran period (approx. 560 Ma)

(2014) A. G. Liu et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Decoupling of body-plan diversification and ecological structuring during the Ediacaran-Cambrian transition: evolutionary and geobiological feedbacks

(2014) M. G. Mangano et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Did the ctenophore nervous system evolve independently?

(2014) Joseph F. Ryan   ZOOLOGY

Bacterial Influences on Animal Origins

(2014) R. A. Alegado et al.   Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology

Ediacaran matground ecology persisted into the earliest Cambrian

(2014) Luis A. Buatois et al.   Nature Communications

New Ediacara fossils preserved in marine limestone and their ecological implications

(2014) Zhe Chen et al.   Scientific Reports

At the Origin of Animals: The Revolutionary Cambrian Fossil Record

(2013) Graham Budd   CURRENT GENOMICS

Affirming life aquatic for the Ediacara biota in China and Australia

(2013) Shuhai Xiao et al.   GEOLOGY

How well do fossil assemblages of the Ediacara Biota tell time?

(2013) J. G. Gehling et al.   GEOLOGY

Deep metazoan phylogeny: When different genes tell different stories

(2013) Tetyana Nosenko et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

First report of a newly discovered Ediacaran biota from the Irkineeva Uplift, East Siberia

(2013) Alexander G. Liu et al.   NEWSLETTERS ON STRATIGRAPHY

Interactions between Ediacaran animals and microbial mats: Insights from Lamonte trevallis, a new trace fossil from the Dengying Formation of South China

(2013) Mike Meyer et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

A family of diatom-like silicon transporters in the siliceous loricate choanoflagellates

(2013) A. O. Marron et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The Genome of the Ctenophore Mnemiopsis leidyi and Its Implications for Cell Type Evolution

(2013) J. F. Ryan et al.   SCIENCE

Trace fossils of precambrian metazoans “Vendobionta” and “Mollusks”

(2013) A. Yu. Ivantsov   STRATIGRAPHY AND GEOLOGICAL CORRELATION

The Continuing Debate on Deep Molluscan Phylogeny: Evidence for Serialia (Mollusca, Monoplacophora + Polyplacophora)

(2013) I. Stöger et al.   Biomed Research International

Premetazoan genome evolution and the regulation of cell differentiation in the choanoflagellate Salpingoeca rosetta

(2013) Stephen R Fairclough et al.   GENOME BIOLOGY

There is no such thing as the ‘Ediacara Biota’

(2013) Breandán Anraoi MacGabhann   Geoscience Frontiers

Independent specialisation of myosin II paralogues in muscle vs. non-muscle functions during early animal evolution: a ctenophore perspective

(2012) Cyrielle Dayraud et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

The Lantian biota: A new window onto the origin and early evolution of multicellular organisms

(2012) XunLai Yuan et al.   CHINESE SCIENCE BULLETIN

Cellular and molecular processes leading to embryo formation in sponges: evidences for high conservation of processes throughout animal evolution

(2012) Alexander V. Ereskovsky et al.   DEVELOPMENT GENES AND EVOLUTION

Late Ediacaran redox stability and metazoan evolution

(2012) D.T. Johnston et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

The oldest evidence of bioturbation on Earth

(2012) Vladimir Rogov et al.   GEOLOGY

The advent of hard-part structural support among the Ediacara biota: Ediacaran harbinger of a Cambrian mode of body construction

(2012) E. C. Clites et al.   GEOLOGY

Nonbiomineralized carapaces in Cambrian seafloor landscapes (Sirius Passet, Greenland): Opening a new window into early Phanerozoic benthic ecology

(2012) M. Gabriela Mángano et al.   GEOLOGY

The end of the Ediacara biota: Extinction, biotic replacement, or Cheshire Cat?

(2012) Marc Laflamme et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

Tree biomass and soil organic carbon densities across the Sudanese woodland savannah: A regional carbon sequestration study

(2012) S.A. Alam et al.   JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS

The evolution of metazoan extracellular matrix

(2012) Richard O. Hynes   JOURNAL OF CELL BIOLOGY

A new assemblage of juvenile Ediacaran fronds from the Drook Formation, Newfoundland

(2012) Alexander G. Liu et al.   JOURNAL OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY

Independent evolution of striated muscles in cnidarians and bilaterians

(2012) Patrick R. H. Steinmetz et al.   NATURE

The architecture of Ediacaran Fronds

(2012) MARTIN D. BRASIER et al.   PALAEONTOLOGY

Mouthparts of the Burgess Shale fossils Odontogriphus and Wiwaxia: implications for the ancestral molluscan radula

(2012) M. R. Smith   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Premetazoan Origin of the Hippo Signaling Pathway

(2012) Arnau Sebé-Pedrós et al.   Cell Reports

A bacterial sulfonolipid triggers multicellular development in the closest living relatives of animals

(2012) Rosanna A Alegado et al.   eLife

Ecosystem engineering, experiment, and evolution

(2011) Trevor Pearce   BIOLOGY & PHILOSOPHY

Difficult phylogenetic questions: more data, maybe; better methods, certainly

(2011) Hervé Philippe et al.   BMC BIOLOGY

Cell differentiation and morphogenesis in the colony-forming choanoflagellate Salpingoeca rosetta

(2011) Mark J. Dayel et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

Eoandromeda and the origin of Ctenophora

(2011) Feng Tang et al.   EVOLUTION & DEVELOPMENT

A rich Ediacaran assemblage from eastern Avalonia: Evidence of early widespread diversity in the deep ocean

(2011) Philip R. Wilby et al.   GEOLOGY

Energetics of burrowing by the cirratulid polychaete Cirriformia moorei

(2011) K. M. Dorgan et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Campanamuta mantonaegen. et. sp. nov., an exceptionally preserved arthropod from the Sirius Passet Fauna (Buen Formation, lower Cambrian, North Greenland)

(2011) Graham E. Budd   JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC PALAEONTOLOGY

An early Ediacaran assemblage of macroscopic and morphologically differentiated eukaryotes

(2011) Xunlai Yuan et al.   NATURE

Possible evolution of mobile animals in association with microbial mats

(2011) Murray Gingras et al.   Nature Geoscience

Testing the protozoan hypothesis for Ediacaran fossils: a developmental analysis of Palaeopascichnus

(2011) JONATHAN B. ANTCLIFFE et al.   PALAEONTOLOGY

Paleontological evidence for the supposed precambrian occurrence of mollusks

(2011) A. Yu. Ivantsov   PALEONTOLOGICAL JOURNAL

The Cambrian Conundrum: Early Divergence and Later Ecological Success in the Early History of Animals

(2011) D. H. Erwin et al.   SCIENCE

Resolving Difficult Phylogenetic Questions: Why More Sequences Are Not Enough

(2011) Hervé Philippe et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Multicellular development in a choanoflagellate

(2010) Stephen R. Fairclough et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Wonderful Ediacarans, wonderful cnidarians?

(2010) Douglas H. Erwin   EVOLUTION & DEVELOPMENT

Six major steps in animal evolution: are we derived sponge larvae?

(2010) Claus Nielsen   EVOLUTION & DEVELOPMENT

A placozoan affinity for Dickinsonia and the evolution of late Proterozoic metazoan feeding modes

(2010) Erik A. Sperling et al.   EVOLUTION & DEVELOPMENT

Rangeomorphs, Thectardis (Porifera?) and dissolved organic carbon in the Ediacaran oceans

(2010) E. A. SPERLING et al.   Geobiology

First evidence for locomotion in the Ediacara biota from the 565 Ma Mistaken Point Formation, Newfoundland

(2010) Alexander G. Liu et al.   GEOLOGY

Glaciation and ~770Ma Ediacara (?) Fossils from the Lesser Karatau Microcontinent, Kazakhstan

(2010) Joseph G. Meert et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

Evolutionary emergence of synaptic nervous systems: what can we learn from the non-synaptic, nerveless Porifera?

(2010) Michael Nickel   INVERTEBRATE BIOLOGY

Biosilicification of loricate choanoflagellate: organic composition of the nanotubular siliceous costal strips of Stephanoeca diplocostata

(2010) N. Gong et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Tracing 13C-enriched dissolved and particulate organic carbon in the bacteria-containing coral reef sponge Halisarca caerulea: Evidence for DOM-feeding

(2010) Jasper M. de Goeij et al.   LIMNOLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY

Improved Phylogenomic Taxon Sampling Noticeably Affects Nonbilaterian Relationships

(2010) K. S. Pick et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Effaced preservation in the Ediacara biota and its implications for the early macrofossil record

(2010) ALEXANDER G. LIU et al.   PALAEONTOLOGY

EARLY MOLLUSCAN EVOLUTION: EVIDENCE FROM THE TRACE FOSSIL RECORD

(2010) A. SEILACHER et al.   PALAIOS

Information landscapes and sensory ecology of the Cambrian Radiation

(2010) Roy E. Plotnick et al.   PALEOBIOLOGY

Freshwater Sponges Have Functional, Sealing Epithelia with High Transepithelial Resistance and Negative Transepithelial Potential

(2010) Emily D. M. Adams et al.   PLoS One

The homeodomain complement of the ctenophore Mnemiopsis leidyi suggests that Ctenophora and Porifera diverged prior to the ParaHoxozoa

(2010) Joseph F Ryan et al.   EvoDevo

The origin of Metazoa: a transition from temporal to spatial cell differentiation

(2009) Kirill V. Mikhailov et al.   BIOESSAYS

Phylogenomics Revives Traditional Views on Deep Animal Relationships

(2009) Hervé Philippe et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Germline cyst formation and incomplete cytokinesis during Drosophila melanogaster oogenesis

(2009) SengKai Ong et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

Oxygen, animals and oceanic ventilation: an alternative view

(2009) N. J. BUTTERFIELD   Geobiology

Where's the glass? Biomarkers, molecular clocks, and microRNAs suggest a 200-Myr missing Precambrian fossil record of siliceous sponge spicules

(2009) E. A. SPERLING et al.   Geobiology

Conserved Meiotic Genes Point to Sex in the Choanoflagellates

(2009) MARTIN CARR et al.   JOURNAL OF EUKARYOTIC MICROBIOLOGY

New reconstruction of Kimberella, problematic Vendian metazoan

(2009) A. Yu. Ivantsov   PALEONTOLOGICAL JOURNAL

Osmotrophy in modular Ediacara organisms

(2009) M. Laflamme et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Ancient divergence of animal protein tyrosine kinase genes demonstrated by a gene family tree including choanoflagellate genes

(2008) Hiroshi Suga et al.   FEBS LETTERS

Eight-armed Ediacara fossil preserved in contrasting taphonomic windows from China and Australia

(2008) Maoyan Zhu et al.   GEOLOGY

Megaphylogeny, Cell Body Plans, Adaptive Zones: Causes and Timing of Eukaryote Basal Radiations

(2008) THOMAS CAVALIER-SMITH   JOURNAL OF EUKARYOTIC MICROBIOLOGY

The genome of the choanoflagellate Monosiga brevicollis and the origin of metazoans

(2008) Nicole King et al.   NATURE

Broad phylogenomic sampling improves resolution of the animal tree of life

(2008) Casey W. Dunn et al.   NATURE

Species effects on ecosystem processes are modified by faunal responses to habitat composition

(2008) Mark T. Bulling et al.   OECOLOGIA

Dickinsonia from Ediacara: A new look at morphology and body construction

(2008) Martin D. Brasier et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Multigene Phylogeny of Choanozoa and the Origin of Animals

(2008) Kamran Shalchian-Tabrizi et al.   PLoS One

Molecular phylogeny of choanoflagellates, the sister group to Metazoa

(2008) M. Carr et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

On the eve of animal radiation: phylogeny, ecology and evolution of the Ediacara biota

(2008) Shuhai Xiao et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION