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

(Why) Does Evolution Favour Embryogenesis?

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The Neoproterozoic

(2015) Nicholas J. Butterfield   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Sponge grade body fossil with cellular resolution dating 60 Myr before the Cambrian

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Critical appraisal of tubular putative eumetazoans from the Ediacaran Weng'an Doushantuo biota

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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

A merciful death for the “earliest bilaterian,” Vernanimalcula

(2012) Stefan Bengtson et al.   EVOLUTION & DEVELOPMENT

An early Ediacaran assemblage of macroscopic and morphologically differentiated eukaryotes

(2011) Xunlai Yuan et al.   NATURE

Early embryogenesis of potential bilaterian animals with polar lobe formation from the Ediacaran Weng’an Biota, South China

(2011) Zongjun Yin et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

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

Phase contrast synchrotron X-ray microtomography of Ediacaran (Doushantuo) metazoan microfossils: Phylogenetic diversity and evolutionary implications

(2009) Jun-Yuan Chen et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

Complex embryos displaying bilaterian characters from Precambrian Doushantuo phosphate deposits, Weng'an, Guizhou, China

(2009) Jun-Yuan Chen et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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

(2008) Maoyan Zhu et al.   GEOLOGY

Nutritional endoderm: a way to breach the holoblastic-meroblastic barrier in tetrapods

(2008) Richard P. Elinson   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL ZOOLOGY PART B-MOLECULAR AND DEVELOPMENTAL EVOLUTION

SYSTEMATIC DESCRIPTION AND PHYLOGENETIC AFFINITY OF TUBULAR MICROFOSSILS FROM THE EDIACARAN DOUSHANTUO FORMATION AT WENG’AN, SOUTH CHINA

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