An evolutionary comparative analysis of the medusozoan (Cnidaria) exoskeleton

In silico hybridization enables transcriptomic illumination of the nature and evolution of Myxozoa

(2015) Jonathan Foox et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Chitin Is Endogenously Produced in Vertebrates

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

First chitin extraction from Plumatella repens (Bryozoa) with comparison to chitins of insect and fungal origin

(2015) Murat Kaya et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL MACROMOLECULES

The Road To Cnidaria: History of Phylogeny of the Myxozoa

(2015) Jonathan Foox et al.   JOURNAL OF PARASITOLOGY

New occurrences of Sphenothallus in the lower Cambrian of South China: Implications for its affinities and taphonomic demineralization of shelly fossils

(2015) A.D. Muscente et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Dynamic redox conditions control late Ediacaran metazoan ecosystems in the Nama Group, Namibia

(2015) R.A. Wood et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

Genomic insights into the evolutionary origin of Myxozoa within Cnidaria

(2015) E. Sally Chang et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Skeletogenesis in problematic Late Proterozoic Lower Metazoa

(2015) E. A. Serezhnikova   PALEONTOLOGICAL JOURNAL

Insights into the Skeletonization, Lifestyle, and Affinity of the Unusual Ediacaran Fossil Corumbella

(2015) Mírian L. A. Forancelli Pacheco et al.   PLoS One

A Higher Level Classification of All Living Organisms

(2015) Michael A. Ruggiero et al.   PLoS One

Giving the early fossil record of sponges a squeeze

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

Early Divergence, Broad Distribution, and High Diversity of Animal Chitin Synthases

(2014) Anne-C. Zakrzewski et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

Co-evolution of eukaryotes and ocean oxygenation in the Neoproterozoic era

(2014) Timothy M. Lenton et al.   Nature Geoscience

Origin and early diversification of the phylum Cnidaria Verrill: major developments in the analysis of the taxon's Proterozoic-Cambrian history

(2014) Heyo Van Iten et al.   PALAEONTOLOGY

Early Life History of Alatina cf. moseri Populations from Australia and Hawaii with Implications for Taxonomy (Cubozoa: Carybdeida, Alatinidae)

(2014) Teresa Carrette et al.   PLoS One

Enigmatic chambered structures in Cryogenian reefs: The oldest sponge-grade organisms?

(2014) Malcolm W. Wallace et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

Haootia quadriformis n. gen., n. sp., interpreted as a muscular cnidarian impression from the Late Ediacaran period (approx. 560 Ma)

(2014) A. G. Liu et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Ediacaran metazoan reefs from the Nama Group, Namibia

(2014) A. M. Penny et al.   SCIENCE

Marine hydroid perisarc: A chitin- and melanin-reinforced composite with DOPA–iron(III) complexes

(2013) Dong Soo Hwang et al.   Acta Biomaterialia

Specific immune priming in the invasive ctenophore Mnemiopsis leidyi

(2013) S. Bolte et al.   Biology Letters

Calcium in the Early Evolution of Living Systems: A Biohistorical Approach

(2013) Jozef Kazmierczak et al.   CURRENT ORGANIC CHEMISTRY

Origin and impact of the oldest metazoan bioclastic sediments

(2013) L.V. Warren et al.   GEOLOGY

Internal anatomy ofHaliclystus antarcticus(Cnidaria, Staurozoa) with a discussion on histological features used in staurozoan taxonomy

(2013) Lucília S. Miranda et al.   JOURNAL OF MORPHOLOGY

Synopsis on the knowledge and distribution of the family Bougainvilliidae (Hydrozoa, Hydroidolina)

(2013) Maria de los Angeles Mendoza Becerril et al.   Latin American Journal of Aquatic Research

The Skeletal Proteome of the Coral Acropora millepora: The Evolution of Calcification by Co-Option and Domain Shuffling

(2013) Paula Ramos-Silva et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Probable advanced hydroid from the Early Ordovician of China

(2013) Andrzej Baliński et al.   Palaeontologische Zeitschrift

A Diploblastic Radiate Animal at the Dawn of Cambrian Diversification with a Simple Body Plan: Distinct from Cnidaria?

(2013) Kinya Yasui et al.   PLoS One

Oxygen, ecology, and the Cambrian radiation of animals

(2013) E. A. Sperling et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Embryos, polyps and medusae of the Early Cambrian scyphozoan Olivooides

(2013) X.-P. Dong et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The Genome of the Ctenophore Mnemiopsis leidyi and Its Implications for Cell Type Evolution

(2013) J. F. Ryan et al.   SCIENCE

Discovery of 505-million-year old chitin in the basal demosponge Vauxia gracilenta

(2013) H. Ehrlich et al.   Scientific Reports

Development and polyp formation of the giant box jellyfish Morbakka virulenta (Kishinouye, 1910) (Cnidaria: Cubozoa) collected from the Seto Inland Sea, western Japan

(2013) Sho Toshino et al.   Plankton & Benthos Research

Morphogenetic foundations for increased evolutionary complexity in the organization of thecate hydroids shoots (Cnidaria, Hydroidomedusa, Leptomedusae)

(2012) I. A. Kosevich   BIOLOGY BULLETIN

A Novel Mode of Colony Formation in a Hydrozoan through Fusion of Sexually Generated Individuals

(2012) Annalise M. Nawrocki et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

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

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

The dawn of animal skeletogenesis: Ultrastructural analysis of the Ediacaran metazoan Corumbella werneri

(2012) L.V. Warren et al.   GEOLOGY

The advent of hard-part structural support among the Ediacara biota: Ediacaran harbinger of a Cambrian mode of body construction

(2012) E. C. Clites et al.   GEOLOGY

Do Staurozoa bloom? A review of stauromedusan population biology

(2012) Lucília S. Miranda et al.   HYDROBIOLOGIA

Life mode ofin situ Conulariain a Middle Devonian epibole

(2012) HEYO VAN ITEN et al.   PALAEONTOLOGY

Biodiversity of Prokaryotic Communities Associated with the Ectoderm of Ectopleura crocea (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa)

(2012) Cristina Gioia Di Camillo et al.   PLoS One

Horizontal Gene Transfer Contributed to the Evolution of Extracellular Surface Structures: The Freshwater Polyp Hydra Is Covered by a Complex Fibrous Cuticle Containing Glycosaminoglycans and Proteins of the PPOD and SWT (Sweet Tooth) Families

(2012) Angelika Böttger et al.   PLoS One

Molecular Phylogeny of Unikonts: New Insights into the Position of Apusomonads and Ancyromonads and the Internal Relationships of Opisthokonts

(2012) Jordi Paps et al.   PROTIST

The first animals: ca. 760-million-year-old sponge-like fossils from Namibia

(2012) C. K. ‘Bob’ Brain et al.   SOUTH AFRICAN JOURNAL OF SCIENCE

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

(2011) Rachel A. Wood   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

The Neoproterozoic oxygenation event: Environmental perturbations and biogeochemical cycling

(2011) Lawrence M. Och et al.   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

The cellular basis of chitin synthesis in fungi and insects: Common principles and differences

(2011) Hans Merzendorfer   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF CELL BIOLOGY

Ecological drivers of the Ediacaran-Cambrian diversification of Metazoa

(2011) Douglas H. Erwin et al.   EVOLUTIONARY ECOLOGY

Ultrastructure of the mesoglea of the sea anemone Nematostella vectensis (Edwardsiidae)

(2011) Richard P. Tucker et al.   INVERTEBRATE BIOLOGY

The Importance of Chitin in the Marine Environment

(2011) Claudiana P. Souza et al.   MARINE BIOTECHNOLOGY

Global Diversity of the Stylasteridae (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa: Athecatae)

(2011) Stephen D. Cairns   PLoS One

Global Biogeochemical Changes at Both Ends of the Proterozoic: Insights from Phosphorites

(2010) Dominic Papineau   ASTROBIOLOGY

Deep homology: A view from systematics

(2010) Robert W. Scotland   BIOESSAYS

Evolution of Calcium-carbonate Skeletons in the Hydractiniidae

(2010) M. P. Miglietta et al.   INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY

Chitin and collagen as universal and alternative templates in biomineralization

(2010) Hermann Ehrlich   INTERNATIONAL GEOLOGY REVIEW

Three-dimensional chitin-based scaffolds from Verongida sponges (Demospongiae: Porifera). Part I. Isolation and identification of chitin

(2010) H. Ehrlich et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL MACROMOLECULES

Molecules Clarify a Cnidarian Life Cycle – The “Hydrozoan” Microhydrula limopsicola Is an Early Life Stage of the Staurozoan Haliclystus antarcticus

(2010) Lucília S. Miranda et al.   PLoS One

In an early branching metazoan, bacterial colonization of the embryo is controlled by maternal antimicrobial peptides

(2010) S. Fraune et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Analysis of  the phylogenetic relationships and evolution of  the cell walls from yeasts and fungi

(2009) José Ruiz-Herrera et al.   FEMS YEAST RESEARCH

Chitin and chitosan polymers: Chemistry, solubility and fiber formation

(2009) C.K.S. Pillai et al.   PROGRESS IN POLYMER SCIENCE

Phylogenetics of Hydroidolina (Hydrozoa: Cnidaria)

(2008) Paulyn Cartwright et al.   JOURNAL OF THE MARINE BIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION OF THE UNITED KINGDOM

CLADISTIC ANALYSIS OF THE SUBORDER CONULARIINA MILLER AND GURLEY, 1896 (CNIDARIA, SCYPHOZOA; VENDIAN–TRIASSIC)

(2008) JULIANA DE MORAES LEME et al.   PALAEONTOLOGY

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

(2008) PENGJU LIU et al.   PALAEONTOLOGY

From Offshore to Onshore: Multiple Origins of Shallow-Water Corals from Deep-Sea Ancestors

(2008) Alberto Lindner et al.   PLoS One

Macroevolution of ecosystem engineering, niche construction and diversity

(2008) D ERWIN   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

On the eve of animal radiation: phylogeny, ecology and evolution of the Ediacara biota

(2008) Shuhai Xiao et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION