Pikaia gracilens Walcott, a stem-group chordate from the Middle Cambrian of British Columbia

False teeth: conodont-vertebrate phylogenetic relationships revisited

(2011) Susan Turner et al.   GEODIVERSITAS

The Burgess Shale AnimalOesiais not a Chaetognath: A Reply to Szaniawski (2005)

(2010) Simon Conway Morris   ACTA PALAEONTOLOGICA POLONICA

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

(2010) Robert S. Sansom et al.   NATURE

Taphonomy and affinity of an enigmatic Silurian vertebrate, Jamoytius kerwoodi White

(2010) ROBERT S. SANSOM et al.   PALAEONTOLOGY

Ancient homeobox gene loss and the evolution of chordate brain and pharynx development: deductions from amphioxus gene expression

(2010) T. Butts et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Decay of vertebrate characters in hagfish and lamprey (Cyclostomata) and the implications for the vertebrate fossil record

(2010) R. S. Sansom et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Plasticity of Animal Genome Architecture Unmasked by Rapid Evolution of a Pelagic Tunicate

(2010) F. Denoeud et al.   SCIENCE

The emergence of the chordate body plan: some puzzles and problems

(2009) Thurston C. Lacalli   ACTA ZOOLOGICA

It's a long way from amphioxus: descendants of the earliest chordate

(2009) Jordi Garcia-Fernàndez et al.   BIOESSAYS

Distinguishing heat from light in debate over controversial fossils

(2009) Philip C. J. Donoghue et al.   BIOESSAYS

The sudden appearance of diverse animal body plansduring the Cambrian explosion

(2009) Jun-Yuan Chen   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

Revaluation of deuterostome phylogeny and evolutionary relationships among chordate subphyla using mitogenome data

(2009) Jing Zhong et al.   Journal of Genetics and Genomics

The predictability of evolution: glimpses into a post-Darwinian world

(2009) Simon Conway Morris   NATURWISSENSCHAFTEN

The earliest history of the deuterostomes: the importance of the Chengjiang Fossil-Lagerstatte

(2009) D.-G. Shu et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Early crest animals and the insight they provide into the evolutionary origin of craniates

(2008) Jun-Yuan Chen   GENESIS

Cambrian Burgess Shale–type deposits share a common mode of fossilization

(2008) Robert R. Gaines et al.   GEOLOGY

A redescription of a rare chordate, Metaspriggina Walcotti Simonetta and Insom, from the Burgess Shale (Middle Cambrian), British Columbia, Canada

(2008) Simon Conway Morris   JOURNAL OF PALEONTOLOGY

Chordate phylogeny and evolution: a not so simple three-taxon problem

(2008) T. Stach   JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY

The amphioxus genome and the evolution of the chordate karyotype

(2008) Nicholas H. Putnam et al.   NATURE

Deciphering deuterostome phylogeny: molecular, morphological and palaeontological perspectives

(2008) B. J Swalla et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Paleoecology of the Greater Phyllopod Bed community, Burgess Shale

(2007) Jean-Bernard Caron et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY