The developmental biology of Charnia and the eumetazoan affinity of the Ediacaran rangeomorphs

Skeletal Nets of the Ediacaran Fronds

(2020) E. A. Luzhnaya (Serezhnikova) et al.   PALEONTOLOGICAL JOURNAL

The Evolutionary Assembly of Neuronal Machinery

(2020) Detlev Arendt   CURRENT BIOLOGY

A Chronostratigraphic Framework for the Rise of the Ediacaran Macrobiota: New Constraints from Mistaken Point Ecological Reserve, Newfoundland

(2020) Jack J. Matthews et al.   GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA BULLETIN

Survival and selection biases in early animal evolution and a source of systematic overestimation in molecular clocks

(2020) Graham E. Budd et al.   Interface Focus

“Dorsal–Ventral” Genes Are Part of an Ancient Axial Patterning System: Evidence from Trichoplax adhaerens (Placozoa)

(2019) Timothy Q DuBuc et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Cambrian Sessile, Suspension Feeding Stem-Group Ctenophores and Evolution of the Comb Jelly Body Plan

(2019) Yang Zhao et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Integrated records of environmental change and evolution challenge the Cambrian Explosion

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

Early animal evolution: a morphologist's view

(2019) Claus Nielsen   Royal Society Open Science

A non-bilaterian perspective on the development and evolution of animal digestive systems

(2019) Patrick R. H. Steinmetz   CELL AND TISSUE RESEARCH

Wnt signaling and polarity in freshwater sponges

(2018) Pamela J. Windsor Reid et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Understanding Animal Evolution: The Added Value of Sponge Transcriptomics and Genomics

(2018) Emmanuelle Renard et al.   BIOESSAYS

Revealing rangeomorph species characters using spatial analyses

(2018) Emily G. Mitchell et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF EARTH SCIENCES

Probabilistic methods outperform parsimony in the phylogenetic analysis of data simulated without a probabilistic model

(2018) Mark N. Puttick et al.   PALAEONTOLOGY

Cambrian petalonamid Stromatoveris phylogenetically links Ediacaran biota to later animals

(2018) Jennifer F. Hoyal Cuthill et al.   PALAEONTOLOGY

Ancient steroids establish the Ediacaran fossil Dickinsonia as one of the earliest animals

(2018) Ilya Bobrovskiy et al.   SCIENCE

Modularity and Overcompensatory Growth in Ediacaran Rangeomorphs Demonstrate Early Adaptations for Coping with Environmental Pressures

(2018) Charlotte G. Kenchington et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Convergent evolution of bilaterian nerve cords

(2017) José M. Martín-Durán et al.   NATURE

Relating Ediacaran Fronds

(2017) T. Alexander Dececchi et al.   PALEOBIOLOGY

Antagonistic BMP–cWNT signaling in the cnidarianNematostella vectensisreveals insight into the evolution of mesoderm

(2017) Naveen Wijesena et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Uncertain-tree: discriminating among competing approaches to the phylogenetic analysis of phenotype data

(2017) Mark N. Puttick et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Nutrient-dependent growth underpinned the Ediacaran transition to large body size

(2017) Jennifer F. Hoyal Cuthill et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Is H3K4me3 instructive for transcription activation?

(2016) Françoise S. Howe et al.   BIOESSAYS

Bayesian methods outperform parsimony but at the expense of precision in the estimation of phylogeny from discrete morphological data

(2016) Joseph E. O'Reilly et al.   Biology Letters

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

(2015) Mario dos Reis et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Role of low intensity environmental disturbance in structuring the earliest (Ediacaran) macrobenthic tiered communities

(2015) P.R. Wilby et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Coordinated Feeding Behavior in Trichoplax, an Animal without Synapses

(2015) Carolyn L. Smith 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

Regridding reconstruction algorithm for real-time tomographic imaging

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

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

Problematic character coding methods in morphology and their effects

(2011) MARTIN D. BRAZEAU   BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

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

(2011) Philip R. Wilby et al.   GEOLOGY

The contractile sponge epithelium sensu lato - body contraction of the demosponge Tethya wilhelma is mediated by the pinacoderm

(2011) M. Nickel et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

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

(2011) D. H. Erwin et al.   SCIENCE

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

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

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

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

Sponge spicules as blueprints for the biofabrication of inorganic–organic composites and biomaterials

(2009) Werner E. G. Müller et al.   APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY

Mechanisms of hypha orientation of fungi

(2009) Alexandra Brand et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN MICROBIOLOGY

Anatomy and development of the nervous system ofNematostella vectensis, an anthozoan cnidarian

(2009) Heather Q. Marlow et al.   Developmental Neurobiology

Epithelia and integration in sponges

(2009) S. P. Leys et al.   INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY

Reconstructing a lost world: Ediacaran rangeomorphs from Spaniard's Bay, Newfoundland

(2009) Guy M. Narbonne et al.   JOURNAL OF PALEONTOLOGY

Evolutionary relationships within the Avalonian Ediacara biota: new insights from laser analysis

(2009) Martin D. Brasier et al.   JOURNAL OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY

Osmotrophy in modular Ediacara organisms

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