Brain and eyes of Kerygmachela reveal protocerebral ancestry of the panarthropod head

The nervous and visual systems of onychophorans and tardigrades: learning about arthropod evolution from their closest relatives

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Arthropod eyes: The early Cambrian fossil record and divergent evolution of visual systems

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The mouth apparatus of the Cambrian gilled lobopodianPambdelurion whittingtoni

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Fuxianhuiid ventral nerve cord and early nervous system evolution in Panarthropoda

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An experimental test of eutardigrade preparation methods for light microscopy

(2016) Witold Morek et al.   ZOOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Preservation and phylogeny of Cambrian ecdysozoans tested by experimental decay of Priapulus

(2016) Robert S. Sansom   Scientific Reports

Insights into the segmental identity of post-oral commissures and pharyngeal nerves in Onychophora based on retrograde fills

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Homology of Head Sclerites in Burgess Shale Euarthropods

(2015) Javier Ortega-Hernández   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Hallucigenia’s head and the pharyngeal armature of early ecdysozoans

(2015) Martin R. Smith et al.   NATURE

Unlocking the early fossil record of the arthropod central nervous system

(2015) G. D. Edgecombe et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Neural development in the tardigrade Hypsibius dujardini based on anti-acetylated α-tubulin immunolabeling

(2015) Vladimir Gross et al.   EvoDevo

An anterior medial cell population with an apical-organ-like transcriptional profile that pioneers the central nervous system in the centipede Strigamia maritima

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Morphology of Anomalocaris canadensis from the Burgess Shale

(2014) Allison C. Daley et al.   JOURNAL OF PALEONTOLOGY

Latest anomalocaridid affinities challenged

(2014) Georg Mayer et al.   NATURE

A suspension-feeding anomalocarid from the Early Cambrian

(2014) Jakob Vinther et al.   NATURE

Brain structure resolves the segmental affinity of anomalocaridid appendages

(2014) Peiyun Cong et al.   NATURE

Sophisticated digestive systems in early arthropods

(2014) Jean Vannier et al.   Nature Communications

The expression pattern of the genes engrailed, pax6, otd and six3 with special respect to head and eye development in Euperipatoides kanangrensis Reid 1996 (Onychophora: Peripatopsidae)

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Kodymirus and the case for convergence of raptorial appendages in Cambrian arthropods

(2013) James C. Lamsdell et al.   NATURWISSENSCHAFTEN

Neural Markers Reveal a One-Segmented Head in Tardigrades (Water Bears)

(2013) Georg Mayer et al.   PLoS One

Morphology of Cambrian lobopodian eyes from the Chengjiang Lagerstätte and their evolutionary significance

(2012) Xiaoya Ma et al.   ARTHROPOD STRUCTURE & DEVELOPMENT

Cambrian lobopodians and extant onychophorans provide new insights into early cephalization in Panarthropoda

(2012) Qiang Ou et al.   Nature Communications

An Early Cambrian stem polychaete with pygidial cirri

(2011) J. Vinther et al.   Biology Letters

Acute vision in the giant Cambrian predator Anomalocaris and the origin of compound eyes

(2011) John R. Paterson et al.   NATURE

Vetulicolians from the Lower Cambrian Sirius Passet Lagerstätte, North Greenland, and the polarity of morphological characters in basal deuterostomes

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A revision of brain composition in Onychophora (velvet worms) suggests that the tritocerebrum evolved in arthropods

(2010) Georg Mayer et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

On the Origin and Evolution of the Tripartite Brain

(2010) Frank Hirth   BRAIN BEHAVIOR AND EVOLUTION

A Great-Appendage Arthropod with a Radial Mouth from the Lower Devonian Hunsruck Slate, Germany

(2009) G. Kuhl et al.   SCIENCE

HEAD STRUCTURE IN UPPER STEM-GROUP EUARTHROPODS

(2008) GRAHAM E. BUDD   PALAEONTOLOGY