The ‘biomineralization toolkit’ and the origin of animal skeletons

The origin of animal body plans: a view from fossil evidence and the regulatory genome

(2020) Douglas H. Erwin   DEVELOPMENT

Discovery of bilaterian-type through-guts in cloudinomorphs from the terminal Ediacaran Period

(2020) James D. Schiffbauer et al.   Nature Communications

New data from Monoplacophora and a carefully-curated dataset resolve molluscan relationships

(2020) Kevin M. Kocot et al.   Scientific Reports

The Scaly-foot Snail genome and implications for the origins of biomineralised armour

(2020) Jin Sun et al.   Nature Communications

A New Spiralian Phylogeny Places the Enigmatic Arrow Worms among Gnathiferans

(2019) Ferdinand Marlétaz et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Trilobite evolutionary rates constrain the duration of the Cambrian explosion

(2019) John R. Paterson et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Diverse biomineralizing animals in the terminal Ediacaran Period herald the Cambrian explosion

(2019) Yaoping Cai et al.   GEOLOGY

Spiculogenesis and biomineralization in early sponge animals

(2019) Qing Tang et al.   Nature Communications

Early evolution of colonial animals (Ediacaran Evolutionary Radiation–Cambrian Evolutionary Radiation–Great Ordovician Biodiversification Interval)

(2018) Ed Landing et al.   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

The first tunicate with a calcareous exoskeleton (Upper Triassic, northern Italy)

(2018) Jobst Wendt   PALAEONTOLOGY

Substrate growth dynamics and biomineralization of an Ediacaran encrusting poriferan

(2018) Rachel Wood et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Naked chancelloriids from the lower Cambrian of China show evidence for sponge-type growth

(2018) Pei-Yun Cong et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The evolution of mollusc shells

(2018) Carmel McDougall et al.   Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews-Developmental Biology

Middle Cambrian through lowermost Ordovician conodonts from Hunan, South China

(2017) Xi-ping Dong et al.   JOURNAL OF PALEONTOLOGY

Cuticle of Polyplacophora: structure, secretion, and homology with the periostracum of conchiferans

(2017) Antonio G. Checa et al.   MARINE BIOLOGY

Ancestral morphology of crown-group molluscs revealed by a new Ordovician stem aculiferan

(2017) Jakob Vinther et al.   NATURE

Brachiopods: origin and early history

(2017) David A. T. Harper et al.   PALAEONTOLOGY

Clustered brachiopod Hox genes are not expressed collinearly and are associated with lophotrochozoan novelties

(2017) Sabrina M. Schiemann et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

First macrobiota biomineralization was environmentally triggered

(2017) Rachel Wood et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Discovery of missing link between demosponges and hexactinellids confirms palaeontological model of sponge evolution

(2017) Joseph P. Botting et al.   Scientific Reports

Orthrozanclus elongata n. sp. and the significance of sclerite-covered taxa for early trochozoan evolution

(2017) Fangchen Zhao et al.   Scientific Reports

The pearl oyster Pinctada fucata martensii genome and multi-omic analyses provide insights into biomineralization

(2017) Xiaodong Du et al.   GigaScience

Nemertean and phoronid genomes reveal lophotrochozoan evolution and the origin of bilaterian heads

(2017) Yi-Jyun Luo et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Complex hierarchical microstructures of Cambrian mollusk Pelagiella: insight into early biomineralization and evolution

(2017) Luoyang Li et al.   Scientific Reports

Spicule formation in calcareous sponges: Coordinated expression of biomineralization genes and spicule-type specific genes

(2017) Oliver Voigt et al.   Scientific Reports

Tracing the evolutionary origin of vertebrate skeletal tissues: insights from cephalochordate amphioxus

(2016) Luok Wen Yong et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN GENETICS & DEVELOPMENT

Sea shell diversity and rapidly evolving secretomes: insights into the evolution of biomineralization

(2016) Kevin M. Kocot et al.   Frontiers in Zoology

Histology and affinity of anaspids, and the early evolution of the vertebrate dermal skeleton

(2016) Joseph N. Keating et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Calcium phosphate mineralization is widely applied in crustacean mandibles

(2016) Shmuel Bentov et al.   Scientific Reports

Chitin Is Endogenously Produced in Vertebrates

(2015) W. Joyce Tang et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Uncertainty in the Timing of Origin of Animals and the Limits of Precision in Molecular Timescales

(2015) Mario dos Reis et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

The Magellania venosa Biomineralizing Proteome: A Window into Brachiopod Shell Evolution

(2015) Daniel J. Jackson et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

Skeletal mineralogy of scaphopods: an unusual uniformity

(2015) Abigail M. Smith et al.   JOURNAL OF MOLLUSCAN STUDIES

Histology of the heterostracan dermal skeleton: Insight into the origin of the vertebrate mineralised skeleton

(2015) Joseph N. Keating et al.   JOURNAL OF MORPHOLOGY

Ecological innovations in the Cambrian and the origins of the crown group phyla

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

Ediacaran skeletal metazoan interpreted as a lophophorate

(2015) A. Yu. Zhuravlev et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Proteome analysis of shell matrix proteins in the brachiopod Laqueus rubellus

(2015) Yukinobu Isowa et al.   Proteome Science

Evolution of the vertebrate skeleton: morphology, embryology, and development

(2015) Tatsuya Hirasawa et al.   Zoological Letters

The Skeleton Forming Proteome of an Early Branching Metazoan: A Molecular Survey of the Biomineralization Components Employed by the Coralline Sponge Vaceletia Sp.

(2015) Juliane Germer et al.   PLoS One

Giving the early fossil record of sponges a squeeze

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

Calcareous sponge genomes reveal complex evolution of α-carbonic anhydrases and two key biomineralization enzymes

(2014) Oliver Voigt et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

New discoveries of the oldest trilobites Profallotaspis and Nevadella in the northeastern Siberian Platform, Russia

(2014) E. Bushuev et al.   BULLETIN OF GEOSCIENCES

Genome-wide analysis of the skeletogenic gene regulatory network of sea urchins

(2014) K. Rafiq et al.   DEVELOPMENT

Evaluating scenarios for the evolutionary assembly of the brachiopod body plan

(2014) Duncan J. E. Murdock et al.   EVOLUTION & DEVELOPMENT

Paterimitra pyramidalisfrom South Australia: scleritome, shell structure and evolution of a lower Cambrian stem group brachiopod

(2014) Cecilia M. Larsson et al.   PALAEONTOLOGY

The origins of molluscs

(2014) Jakob Vinther   PALAEONTOLOGY

The origin of annelids

(2014) Luke Parry et al.   PALAEONTOLOGY

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

(2014) Joseph P. Botting et al.   PALAEONTOLOGY

Ediacaran metazoan reefs from the Nama Group, Namibia

(2014) A. M. Penny et al.   SCIENCE

Occurrence of the Ordovician-type aglaspidid Tremaglaspis in the Cambrian Weeks Formation (Utah, USA)

(2013) RUDY LEROSEY-AUBRIL et al.   GEOLOGICAL MAGAZINE

A unique condition for early diversification of small shelly fossils in the lowermost Cambrian in Chengjiang, South China: Enrichment of phosphorus in restricted embayments

(2013) Tomohiko Sato et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

Reinterpretation of the Cambrian ‘bryozoan’ Pywackia as an octocoral

(2013) Paul D. Taylor et al.   JOURNAL OF PALEONTOLOGY

The origin of conodonts and of vertebrate mineralized skeletons

(2013) Duncan J. E. Murdock et al.   NATURE

Causes of the Cambrian Explosion

(2013) M. P. Smith et al.   SCIENCE

The oldest echinoderm faunas from Gondwana show that echinoderm body plan diversification was rapid

(2013) Andrew B. Smith et al.   Nature Communications

A sclerite-bearing stem group entoproct from the early Cambrian and its implications

(2013) Zhifei Zhang et al.   Scientific Reports

Escalation and ecological selectively of mineralogy in the Cambrian Radiation of skeletons

(2012) Rachel Wood et al.   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

TGF-β and BMP Signaling in Osteoblast Differentiation and Bone Formation

(2012) Guiqian Chen et al.   International Journal of Biological Sciences

Evidence for spicule homology in calcareous and siliceous sponges: biminerallic spicules inLenicasp. from the Early Cambrian of South China

(2012) JOSEPH P. BOTTING et al.   LETHAIA

Ontogeny and microstructure of the enigmatic Cambrian tommotiid Sunnaginia Missarzhevsky, 1969

(2012) DUNCAN J. E. MURDOCK et al.   PALAEONTOLOGY

Biomineral ultrastructure, elemental constitution and genomic analysis of biomineralization-related proteins in hemichordates

(2012) C. B. Cameron et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

paleotree: an R package for paleontological and phylogenetic analyses of evolution

(2012) David W. Bapst   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

New Finds of Skeletal Fossils in the Terminal Neoproterozoic of the Siberian Platform and Spain

(2011) Andrey Yu. Zhuravlev et al.   ACTA PALAEONTOLOGICA POLONICA

Evolutionary Origins of Animal Skeletal Biomineralization

(2011) Duncan J.E. Murdock et al.   CELLS TISSUES ORGANS

Possible functions of Dpp in gastropod shell formation and shell coiling

(2011) Keisuke Shimizu et al.   DEVELOPMENT GENES AND EVOLUTION

Paleoecology of the earliest skeletal metazoan communities: Implications for early biomineralization

(2011) Rachel A. Wood   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

Molecular paleobiological insights into the origin of the Brachiopoda

(2011) Erik A. Sperling et al.   EVOLUTION & DEVELOPMENT

Chronology of early Cambrian biomineralization

(2011) ARTEM KOUCHINSKY et al.   GEOLOGICAL MAGAZINE

Hyolithellus in life position from the Lower Cambrian of North Greenland

(2011) Christian B. Skovsted et al.   JOURNAL OF PALEONTOLOGY

Two species of Hesslandona (Phosphatocopida, Crustacea) from the Upper Cambrian of western Hunan, South China and the phylogeny of Phosphatocopida

(2011) Huaqiao Zhang et al.   JOURNAL OF PALEONTOLOGY

Phylogenomics reveals deep molluscan relationships

(2011) Kevin M. Kocot et al.   NATURE

Shell microstructure of the early bivalve Pojetaia and the independent origin of nacre within the mollusca

(2011) MICHAEL J. VENDRASCO et al.   PALAEONTOLOGY

Cambrian stalked echinoderms show unexpected plasticity of arm construction

(2011) S. Zamora et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

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

(2011) D. H. Erwin et al.   SCIENCE

phytools: an R package for phylogenetic comparative biology (and other things)

(2011) Liam J. Revell   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

A New Middle Cambrian Stem-Group Echinoderm from Spain: Palaeobiological Implications of a Highly Asymmetric Cinctan

(2010) Samuel Zamora et al.   ACTA PALAEONTOLOGICA POLONICA

Carbonaceous preservation of Cambrian hexactinellid sponge spicules

(2010) T. H. P. Harvey   Biology Letters

Are palaeoscolecids ancestral ecdysozoans?

(2010) Thomas H. P. Harvey et al.   EVOLUTION & DEVELOPMENT

The earliest Cambrian record of animals and ocean geochemical change

(2010) A. C. Maloof et al.   GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA BULLETIN

Cambrian origin of all skeletalized metazoan phyla—Discovery of Earth's oldest bryozoans (Upper Cambrian, southern Mexico)

(2010) Ed Landing et al.   GEOLOGY

The cuticle of the enigmatic arthropod Phytophilaspis and biomineralization in Cambrian arthropods

(2010) JIH-PAI LIN et al.   LETHAIA

New data on molluscs and their shell microstructures from the Middle Cambrian Gowers Formation, Australia

(2010) MICHAEL J. VENDRASCO et al.   PALAEONTOLOGY

The TommotiidCamenella reticulosafrom the Early Cambrian of South Australia: Morphology, Scleritome Reconstruction, and Phylogeny

(2009) Christian B. Skovsted et al.   ACTA PALAEONTOLOGICA POLONICA

THE IMPORTANCE OF PREADAPTED GENOMES IN THE ORIGIN OF THE ANIMAL BODYPLANS AND THE CAMBRIAN EXPLOSION

(2009) Charles R. Marshal et al.   EVOLUTION

Homologous skeletal secretion in tommotiids and brachiopods

(2009) U. Balthasar et al.   GEOLOGY

The lower cambrian fossil anabaritids: Affinities, occurrences and systematics

(2009) Artem Kouchinsky et al.   JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC PALAEONTOLOGY

Parallel Evolution of Nacre Building Gene Sets in Molluscs

(2009) Daniel J. Jackson et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

New data on the enigmaticOcruranus-Eohalobiagroup of Early Cambrian small skeletal fossils

(2009) MICHAEL J. VENDRASCO et al.   PALAEONTOLOGY

THE CANAL SYSTEM IN SCLERITES OF LOWER CAMBRIANSINOSACHITES(HALKIERIIDAE: SACHITIDA): SIGNIFICANCE FOR THE MOLLUSCAN AFFINITIES OF THE SACHITIDS

(2009) JAKOB VINTHER   PALAEONTOLOGY

THE ENIGMATIC EARLY CAMBRIANSALANYGOLINA- A STEM GROUP OF RHYNCHONELLIFORM CHILEATE BRACHIOPODS?

(2009) LARS E HOLMER et al.   PALAEONTOLOGY

Mineralization of vestimentiferan tubes at methane seeps on the Congo deep-sea fan

(2008) Antonie Haas et al.   DEEP-SEA RESEARCH PART I-OCEANOGRAPHIC RESEARCH PAPERS

A conserved role of the VEGF pathway in angiogenesis of an ectodermally-derived vasculature

(2008) Stefano Tiozzo et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

The scleritome of Eccentrotheca from the Lower Cambrian of South Australia: Lophophorate affinities and implications for tommotiid phylogeny

(2008) Christian B. Skovsted et al.   GEOLOGY

Eve of biomineralization: Controls on skeletal mineralogy

(2008) Andrey Yu. Zhuravlev et al.   GEOLOGY

The Oldest Cephalopods from East Laurentia

(2008) Ed Landing et al.   JOURNAL OF PALEONTOLOGY

Machaeridians are Palaeozoic armoured annelids

(2008) Jakob Vinther et al.   NATURE

SKELETAL MICROSTRUCTURE INDICATES CHANCELLORIIDS AND HALKIERIIDS ARE CLOSELY RELATED

(2008) SUSANNAH M. PORTER   PALAEONTOLOGY

Tube structure and original composition of Sinotubulites: shelly fossils from the late Neoproterozoic in southern Shaanxi, China

(2007) ZHE CHEN et al.   LETHAIA

Late Carboniferous hydrocarbon-seep carbonates from the glaciomarine Dwyka Group, southern Namibia

(2007) Tobias Himmler et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY