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

The Multiple Origins of Complex Multicellularity

(2011) Andrew H. Knoll   Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

An Early Cambrian Hemichordate Zooid

(2011) Xian-guang Hou et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Molecular paleobiological insights into the origin of the Brachiopoda

(2011) Erik A. Sperling et al.   EVOLUTION & DEVELOPMENT

Acoelomorph flatworms are deuterostomes related to Xenoturbella

(2011) Hervé Philippe et al.   NATURE

Enigmatic origin of the largest-known carbon isotope excursion in Earth's history

(2011) John P. Grotzinger et al.   Nature Geoscience

Functional consequences of developmentally regulated alternative splicing

(2011) Auinash Kalsotra et al.   NATURE REVIEWS GENETICS

Global Biodiversity and Phylogenetic Evaluation of Remipedia (Crustacea)

(2011) Marco T. Neiber et al.   PLoS One

MicroRNAs and phylogenomics resolve the relationships of Tardigrada and suggest that velvet worms are the sister group of Arthropoda

(2011) L. I. Campbell et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Resolving Difficult Phylogenetic Questions: Why More Sequences Are Not Enough

(2011) Hervé Philippe et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

New Palaeoscolecidan Worms from the Lower Cambrian: Sirius Passet, Latham Shale and Kinzers Shale

(2010) Simon Conway Morris et al.   ACTA PALAEONTOLOGICA POLONICA

Adaptive Radiation, Ecological Opportunity, and Evolutionary Determinism

(2010) Jonathan B. Losos   AMERICAN NATURALIST

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

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

Rangeomorphs, Thectardis (Porifera?) and dissolved organic carbon in the Ediacaran oceans

(2010) E. A. SPERLING et al.   Geobiology

The earliest Cambrian record of animals and ocean geochemical change

(2010) A. C. Maloof et al.   GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA BULLETIN

Constraints on early Cambrian carbon cycling from the duration of the Nemakit-Daldynian–Tommotian boundary δ13C shift, Morocco

(2010) Adam C. Maloof et al.   GEOLOGY

Middle Cambrian echinoderms from north Spain show echinoderms diversified earlier in Gondwana

(2010) Samuel Zamora   GEOLOGY

Cambrian origin of all skeletalized metazoan phyla—Discovery of Earth's oldest bryozoans (Upper Cambrian, southern Mexico)

(2010) Ed Landing et al.   GEOLOGY

First evidence for locomotion in the Ediacara biota from the 565 Ma Mistaken Point Formation, Newfoundland

(2010) Alexander G. Liu et al.   GEOLOGY

A possible anomalocaridid from the Cambrian Sirius Passet Lagerstätte, North Greenland

(2010) Allison C. Daley et al.   JOURNAL OF PALEONTOLOGY

A corset-like fossil from the Cambrian Sirius Passet Lagerstätte of North Greenland and its implications for cycloneuralian evolution

(2010) John S. Peel   JOURNAL OF PALEONTOLOGY

Improved Phylogenomic Taxon Sampling Noticeably Affects Nonbilaterian Relationships

(2010) K. S. Pick et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Unexpected Repertoire of Metazoan Transcription Factors in the Unicellular Holozoan Capsaspora owczarzaki

(2010) A. Sebe-Pedros et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Primitive soft-bodied cephalopods from the Cambrian

(2010) Martin R. Smith et al.   NATURE

Ordovician faunas of Burgess Shale type

(2010) Peter Van Roy et al.   NATURE

The Amphimedon queenslandica genome and the evolution of animal complexity

(2010) Mansi Srivastava et al.   NATURE

Possible animal-body fossils in pre-Marinoan limestones from South Australia

(2010) Adam C. Maloof et al.   Nature Geoscience

Tentaculate Fossils from the Cambrian of Canada (British Columbia) and China (Yunnan) Interpreted as Primitive Deuterostomes

(2010) Jean-Bernard Caron et al.   PLoS One

A congruent solution to arthropod phylogeny: phylogenomics, microRNAs and morphology support monophyletic Mandibulata

(2010) O. Rota-Stabelli et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Soft-part anatomy of the Early Cambrian bivalved arthropods Kunyangella and Kunmingella: significance for the phylogenetic relationships of Bradoriida

(2010) X. Hou et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The TommotiidCamenella reticulosafrom the Early Cambrian of South Australia: Morphology, Scleritome Reconstruction, and Phylogeny

(2009) Christian B. Skovsted et al.   ACTA PALAEONTOLOGICA POLONICA

Arthropod phylogeny: An overview from the perspectives of morphology, molecular data and the fossil record

(2009) Gregory D. Edgecombe   ARTHROPOD STRUCTURE & DEVELOPMENT

MicroRNAs and metazoan macroevolution: insights into canalization, complexity, and the Cambrian explosion

(2009) Kevin J. Peterson et al.   BIOESSAYS

PhyloBayes 3: a Bayesian software package for phylogenetic reconstruction and molecular dating

(2009) Nicolas Lartillot et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Phylogenomics Revives Traditional Views on Deep Animal Relationships

(2009) Hervé Philippe et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Where's the glass? Biomarkers, molecular clocks, and microRNAs suggest a 200-Myr missing Precambrian fossil record of siliceous sponge spicules

(2009) E. A. SPERLING et al.   Geobiology

The lower cambrian fossil anabaritids: Affinities, occurrences and systematics

(2009) Artem Kouchinsky et al.   JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC PALAEONTOLOGY

Phylogenetic-Signal Dissection of Nuclear Housekeeping Genes Supports the Paraphyly of Sponges and the Monophyly of Eumetazoa

(2009) E. A. Sperling et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Nearly complete rRNA genes assembled from across the metazoan animals: Effects of more taxa, a structure-based alignment, and paired-sites evolutionary models on phylogeny reconstruction

(2009) Jon Mallatt et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Fossil steroids record the appearance of Demospongiae during the Cryogenian period

(2009) Gordon D. Love et al.   NATURE

THE ENIGMATIC EARLY CAMBRIANSALANYGOLINA- A STEM GROUP OF RHYNCHONELLIFORM CHILEATE BRACHIOPODS?

(2009) LARS E HOLMER et al.   PALAEONTOLOGY

New reconstruction of Kimberella, problematic Vendian metazoan

(2009) A. Yu. Ivantsov   PALEONTOLOGICAL JOURNAL

Early origin of the bilaterian developmental toolkit

(2009) D. H. Erwin   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Large spinose microfossils in Ediacaran rocks as resting stages of early animals

(2009) P. A. Cohen et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The Impact of the Representation of Fossil Calibrations on Bayesian Estimation of Species Divergence Times

(2009) Jun Inoue et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

The oldest cinctan carpoid (stem-group Echinodermata), and the evolution of the water vascular system

(2009) IMRAN A RAHMAN et al.   ZOOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Early Jurassic annelid cocoons from eastern Australia

(2008) Ida-Maria Jansson‡ et al.   ALCHERINGA

The scleritome of Eccentrotheca from the Lower Cambrian of South Australia: Lophophorate affinities and implications for tommotiid phylogeny

(2008) Christian B. Skovsted et al.   GEOLOGY

Tracing the stepwise oxygenation of the Proterozoic ocean

(2008) C. Scott et al.   NATURE

Machaeridians are Palaeozoic armoured annelids

(2008) Jakob Vinther et al.   NATURE

Acoel development supports a simple planula-like urbilaterian

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

The Ediacaran emergence of bilaterians: congruence between the genetic and the geological fossil records

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

The Avalon Explosion: Evolution of Ediacara Morphospace

(2008) B. Shen et al.   SCIENCE

Multilevel Regulation of Gene Expression by MicroRNAs

(2008) E. V. Makeyev et al.   SCIENCE

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

Ediacaran biota on Bonavista Peninsula, Newfoundland, Canada

(2007) H. J. Hofmann et al.   JOURNAL OF PALEONTOLOGY

Ediacaran fronds

(2007) Marc Laflamme et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY