Developmental biology of Helicoforamina reveals holozoan affinity, cryptic diversity, and adaptation to heterogeneous environments in the early Ediacaran Weng’an biota (Doushantuo Formation, South China)

Integrated records of environmental change and evolution challenge the Cambrian Explosion

(2019) Rachel Wood et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Tubular microfossils from the Ediacaran Weng’an Biota (Doushantuo Formation, South China) are not early animals

(2019) Wei-Chen Sun et al.   Palaeoworld

Cellular preservation of excysting developmental stages of new eukaryotes from the early Ediacaran Weng’an Biota

(2019) Emma N.U. Landon et al.   Palaeoworld

A unicellular relative of animals generates a layer of polarized cells by actomyosin-dependent cellularization

(2019) Omaya Dudin et al.   eLife

The Early Ediacaran Caveasphaera Foreshadows the Evolutionary Origin of Animal-like Embryology

(2019) Zongjun Yin et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Early Cambrian animal diapause embryos revealed by X-ray tomography

(2018) Zongjun Yin et al.   GEOLOGY

The Weng'an Biota (Doushantuo Formation): an Ediacaran window on soft-bodied and multicellular microorganisms

(2017) John A. Cunningham et al.   JOURNAL OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY

Nuclei and nucleoli in embryo-like fossils from the Ediacaran Weng’an Biota

(2017) Zongjun Yin et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

A multicellular organism with embedded cell clusters from the Ediacaran Weng'an biota (Doushantuo Formation, South China)

(2016) John A. Cunningham et al.   EVOLUTION & DEVELOPMENT

Meroblastic cleavage identifies some Ediacaran Doushantuo (China) embryo-like fossils as metazoans

(2016) Zongjun Yin et al.   GEOLOGY

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

(2015) Mario dos Reis et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Possible algal origin and life cycle of Ediacaran Doushantuo microfossils with dextral spiral structure

(2014) Xi-Guang Zhang et al.   JOURNAL OF PALEONTOLOGY

Phosphatized acanthomorphic acritarchs and related microfossils from the Ediacaran Doushantuo Formation at Weng'an (South China) and their implications for biostratigraphic correlation

(2014) Shuhai Xiao et al.   JOURNAL OF PALEONTOLOGY

Cell differentiation and germ–soma separation in Ediacaran animal embryo-like fossils

(2014) Lei Chen et al.   NATURE

The Weng'an biota and the Ediacaran radiation of multicellular eukaryotes

(2014) Shuhai Xiao et al.   National Science Review

Development of ichthyosporeans sheds light on the origin of metazoan multicellularity

(2013) Hiroshi Suga et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

Biological and taphonomic implications of Ediacaran fossil embryos undergoing cytokinesis

(2013) Zongjun Yin et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

Carpospore release and sporeling development in Gracilaria gracilis (Gracilariales, Rhodophyta) from the southwestern Atlantic coast (Chubut, Argentina)

(2013) Karina M. Michetti et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYCOLOGY

New observations of the ornamented Doushantuo embryo fossils from the Ediacaran Weng’an Biota, South China

(2012) Z.J. Yin et al.   BULLETIN OF GEOSCIENCES

Early development of grateloupia turuturu (Halymeniaceae, Rhodophyta)

(2012) Gaoge Wang et al.   CHINESE JOURNAL OF OCEANOLOGY AND LIMNOLOGY

Regridding reconstruction algorithm for real-time tomographic imaging

(2012) F. Marone et al.   JOURNAL OF SYNCHROTRON RADIATION

Distinguishing geology from biology in the Ediacaran Doushantuo biota relaxes constraints on the timing of the origin of bilaterians

(2012) J. A. Cunningham et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Fossilized Nuclei and Germination Structures Identify Ediacaran "Animal Embryos" as Encysting Protists

(2011) T. Huldtgren et al.   SCIENCE

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

(2011) D. H. Erwin et al.   SCIENCE

Non-random decay of chordate characters causes bias in fossil interpretation

(2010) Robert S. Sansom et al.   NATURE

ONTOGENY AND TAPHONOMY: AN EXPERIMENTAL TAPHONOMY STUDY OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE BRINE SHRIMPARTEMIA SALINA

(2009) NEIL J. GOSTLING et al.   PALAEONTOLOGY

Large spinose microfossils in Ediacaran rocks as resting stages of early animals

(2009) P. A. Cohen et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA