Fossils from South China redefine the ancestral euarthropod body plan

Burgess Shale fossils shed light on the agnostid problem

(2019) J. Moysiuk et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Reviewing the bases for a nomenclatural uniformization of the highest taxonomic levels in arthropods

(2019) Cédric Aria   GEOLOGICAL MAGAZINE

THE LIMITS OF BURGESS SHALE-TYPE PRESERVATION: ASSESSING THE EVIDENCE FOR PRESERVATION OF THE BLOOD PROTEIN HEMOCYANIN IN THE BURGESS SHALE

(2019) ROBERT R. GAINES et al.   PALAIOS

A middle Cambrian arthropod with chelicerae and proto-book gills

(2019) Cédric Aria et al.   NATURE

Three new naraoiid species from the Burgess Shale, with a morphometric and phylogenetic reinvestigation of Naraoiidae

(2018) Benjamin Mayers et al.   PALAEONTOLOGY

Brain and eyes of Kerygmachela reveal protocerebral ancestry of the panarthropod head

(2018) Tae-Yoon S. Park et al.   Nature Communications

Waptia fieldensis Walcott, a mandibulate arthropod from the middle Cambrian Burgess Shale

(2018) Jean Vannier et al.   Royal Society Open Science

Three-Dimensionally Preserved Appendages in an Early Cambrian Stem-Group Pancrustacean

(2018) Dayou Zhai et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Burgess Shale fossils illustrate the origin of the mandibulate body plan

(2017) Cédric Aria et al.   NATURE

Comparative analysis of gene expression patterns in the arthropod labrum and the onychophoran frontal appendages, and its implications for the arthropod head problem

(2017) Ralf Janssen   EvoDevo

The nature of non-appendicular anterior paired projections in Palaeozoic total-group Euarthropoda

(2016) Javier Ortega-Hernández et al.   ARTHROPOD STRUCTURE & DEVELOPMENT

Arthropod eyes: The early Cambrian fossil record and divergent evolution of visual systems

(2016) Nicholas J. Strausfeld et al.   ARTHROPOD STRUCTURE & DEVELOPMENT

Fuxianhuiid ventral nerve cord and early nervous system evolution in Panarthropoda

(2016) Jie Yang et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Three-dimensionally preserved minute larva of a great-appendage arthropod from the early Cambrian Chengjiang biota

(2016) Yu Liu et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Exploring Phylogenetic Relationships within Myriapoda and the Effects of Matrix Composition and Occupancy on Phylogenomic Reconstruction

(2016) Rosa Fernández et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Homology of Head Sclerites in Burgess Shale Euarthropods

(2015) Javier Ortega-Hernández   CURRENT BIOLOGY

The ‘great appendage’ arthropod Tanglangia : Biogeographic connections between early Cambrian biotas of Australia and South China

(2015) John R. Paterson et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

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

(2015) Peter Van Roy et al.   NATURE

A large new leanchoiliid from the Burgess Shale and the influence of inapplicable states on stem arthropod phylogeny

(2015) Cédric Aria et al.   PALAEONTOLOGY

The affinities of the cosmopolitan arthropodIsoxysand its implications for the origin of arthropods

(2015) David A. Legg et al.   LETHAIA

Cephalic and Limb Anatomy of a New Isoxyid from the Burgess Shale and the Role of “Stem Bivalved Arthropods” in the Disparity of the Frontalmost Appendage

(2015) Cédric Aria et al.   PLoS One

Morphology of Anomalocaris canadensis from the Burgess Shale

(2014) Allison C. Daley et al.   JOURNAL OF PALEONTOLOGY

Brain structure resolves the segmental affinity of anomalocaridid appendages

(2014) Peiyun Cong et al.   NATURE

Neuronal tracing of oral nerves in a velvet worm—Implications for the evolution of the ecdysozoan brain

(2014) Christine Martin et al.   Frontiers in Neuroanatomy

Multi-Segmented Arthropods from the Middle Cambrian of British Columbia (Canada)

(2013) David Legg   JOURNAL OF PALEONTOLOGY

Chelicerate neural ground pattern in a Cambrian great appendage arthropod

(2013) Gengo Tanaka et al.   NATURE

Arthropod fossil data increase congruence of morphological and molecular phylogenies

(2013) David A. Legg et al.   Nature Communications

Morphology and function in the Cambrian Burgess Shale megacheiran arthropod Leanchoilia superlata and the application of a descriptive matrix

(2012) Joachim T Haug et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Spatial variation in the diversity and composition of the Lower Cambrian (Series 2, Stage 3) Chengjiang Biota, Southwest China

(2012) Fangchen Zhao et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

MrBayes 3.2: Efficient Bayesian Phylogenetic Inference and Model Choice Across a Large Model Space

(2012) Fredrik Ronquist et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

A New Leanchoiliid Megacheiran Arthropod from the Lower Cambrian Emu Bay Shale, South Australia

(2011) Gregory D. Edgecombe et al.   ACTA PALAEONTOLOGICA POLONICA

A rare onychophoran-like lobopodian from the Lower Cambrian Chengjiang Lagerstätte, southwestern China, and its phylogenetic implications

(2011) Qiang Ou et al.   JOURNAL OF PALEONTOLOGY

Functional morphology, ontogeny and evolution of mantis shrimp-like predators in the Cambrian

(2011) JOACHIM T. HAUG et al.   PALAEONTOLOGY

The chelifores of sea spiders (Arthropoda, Pycnogonida) are the appendages of the deutocerebral segment

(2010) Georg Brenneis et al.   EVOLUTION & DEVELOPMENT

Invertebrate neurophylogeny: suggested terms and definitions for a neuroanatomical glossary

(2010) Stefan Richter et al.   Frontiers in Zoology

Arthropod relationships revealed by phylogenomic analysis of nuclear protein-coding sequences

(2010) Jerome C. Regier et al.   NATURE

A congruent solution to arthropod phylogeny: phylogenomics, microRNAs and morphology support monophyletic Mandibulata

(2010) O. Rota-Stabelli et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Cambrian Burgess Shale–type deposits share a common mode of fossilization

(2008) Robert R. Gaines et al.   GEOLOGY