Ancestral morphology of Ecdysozoa constrained by an early Cambrian stem group ecdysozoan

A Tube-Dwelling Early Cambrian Lobopodian

(2020) Richard J. Howard et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Carbon isotope (δ13Ccarb) stratigraphy of the Early–Middle Ordovician (Tremadocian–Darriwilian) carbonate platform in the Tarim Basin, NW China: implications for global correlations

(2020) Xiaoqun Yang et al.   GEOLOGICAL MAGAZINE

A New Spiralian Phylogeny Places the Enigmatic Arrow Worms among Gnathiferans

(2019) Ferdinand Marlétaz et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Trilobite evolutionary rates constrain the duration of the Cambrian explosion

(2019) John R. Paterson et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Bilateral Jaw Elements in Amiskwia sagittiformis Bridge the Morphological Gap between Gnathiferans and Chaetognaths

(2019) Jakob Vinther et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Death march of a segmented and trilobate bilaterian elucidates early animal evolution

(2019) Zhe Chen et al.   NATURE

New evolutionary and ecological advances in deciphering the Cambrian explosion of animal life

(2018) Zhifei Zhang et al.   JOURNAL OF PALEONTOLOGY

Parsimony and model-based phylogenetic methods for morphological data: comments on O'Reilly et al .

(2018) Pablo A. Goloboff et al.   PALAEONTOLOGY

Empirical realism of simulated data is more important than the model used to generate it: a reply to Goloboff et al .

(2018) Joseph E. O'Reilly et al.   PALAEONTOLOGY

Late Ediacaran trackways produced by bilaterian animals with paired appendages

(2018) Zhe Chen et al.   Science Advances

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

(2018) Mark N. Puttick et al.   PALAEONTOLOGY

Was the ancestral panarthropod mouth ventral or terminal?

(2018) Claus Nielsen   ARTHROPOD STRUCTURE & DEVELOPMENT

The last common ancestor of Ecdysozoa had an adult terminal mouth

(2018) Javier Ortega-Hernández et al.   ARTHROPOD STRUCTURE & DEVELOPMENT

Current Understanding of Ecdysozoa and its Internal Phylogenetic Relationships

(2017) Gonzalo Giribet et al.   INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY

Occurrence of Microdictyon from the lower Cambrian Xinji Formation along the southern margin of the North China Platform

(2017) Bing Pan et al.   JOURNAL OF PALEONTOLOGY

Cambrian trilobite biostratigraphy and its role in developing an integrated history of the Earth system

(2017) Loren E. Babcock et al.   LETHAIA

UFBoot2: Improving the Ultrafast Bootstrap Approximation

(2017) Diep Thi Hoang et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Probabilistic methods surpass parsimony when assessing clade support in phylogenetic analyses of discrete morphological data

(2017) Joseph E. O'Reilly et al.   PALAEONTOLOGY

Parsimony and maximum-likelihood phylogenetic analyses of morphology do not generally integrate uncertainty in inferring evolutionary history: a response to Brown et al.

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

Ichnological evidence for meiofaunal bilaterians from the terminal Ediacaran and earliest Cambrian of Brazil

(2017) Luke A. Parry et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Onychophoran-like musculature in a phosphatized Cambrian lobopodian

(2016) Xi-Guang Zhang et al.   Biology Letters

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

TNT version 1.5, including a full implementation of phylogenetic morphometrics

(2016) Pablo A. Goloboff et al.   CLADISTICS

The mouth apparatus of the Cambrian gilled lobopodianPambdelurion whittingtoni

(2016) Jakob Vinther et al.   PALAEONTOLOGY

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

(2016) Robert S. Sansom   Scientific Reports

Preservational Pathways of Corresponding Brains of a Cambrian Euarthropod

(2015) Xiaoya Ma et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Spiralian Phylogeny Informs the Evolution of Microscopic Lineages

(2015) Christopher E. Laumer et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

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

(2015) Mario dos Reis et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Hallucigenia’s head and the pharyngeal armature of early ecdysozoans

(2015) Martin R. Smith et al.   NATURE

The macro- and microfossil record of the Cambrian priapulidOttoia

(2015) Martin R. Smith et al.   PALAEONTOLOGY

The role of experiments in investigating the taphonomy of exceptional preservation

(2015) Derek E. G. Briggs et al.   PALAEONTOLOGY

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

A superarmored lobopodian from the Cambrian of China and early disparity in the evolution of Onychophora

(2015) Jie Yang et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Armored kinorhynch-like scalidophoran animals from the early Cambrian

(2015) Huaqiao Zhang et al.   Scientific Reports

Making sense of ‘lower’ and ‘upper’ stem-group Euarthropoda, with comments on the strict use of the name Arthropoda von Siebold, 1848

(2014) Javier Ortega-Hernández   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Decay of velvet worms (Onychophora), and bias in the fossil record of lobopodians

(2014) Duncan JE Murdock et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

The oldest known priapulid-like scalidophoran animal and its implications for the early evolution of cycloneuralians and ecdysozoans

(2014) Yunhuan Liu et al.   EVOLUTION & DEVELOPMENT

Detailed reconstruction of the musculature in Limnognathia maerski (Micrognathozoa) and comparison with other Gnathifera

(2014) Nicolas Bekkouche et al.   Frontiers in Zoology

IQ-TREE: A Fast and Effective Stochastic Algorithm for Estimating Maximum-Likelihood Phylogenies

(2014) Lam-Tung Nguyen et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

A transcriptome approach to ecdysozoan phylogeny

(2014) Janus Borner et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Hallucigenia’s onychophoran-like claws and the case for Tactopoda

(2014) Martin R. Smith 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

Molecular Timetrees Reveal a Cambrian Colonization of Land and a New Scenario for Ecdysozoan Evolution

(2013) Omar Rota-Stabelli et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Ultrafast Approximation for Phylogenetic Bootstrap

(2013) B. Q. Minh et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Chelicerate neural ground pattern in a Cambrian great appendage arthropod

(2013) Gengo Tanaka et al.   NATURE

Atlas of vertebrate decay: a visual and taphonomic guide to fossil interpretation

(2013) Robert S. Sansom et al.   PALAEONTOLOGY

Life Cycle and Morphology of a Cambrian Stem-Lineage Loriciferan

(2013) John S. Peel et al.   PLoS One

Beyond the Burgess Shale: Cambrian microfossils track the rise and fall of hallucigeniid lobopodians

(2013) J.-B. Caron et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Fossilization causes organisms to appear erroneously primitive by distorting evolutionary trees

(2013) Robert S. Sansom et al.   Scientific Reports

A new species of Hallucigenia from the Cambrian Stage 4 Wulongqing Formation of Yunnan (South China) and the structure of sclerites in lobopodians

(2012) M. Steiner et al.   BULLETIN OF GEOSCIENCES

The disparity of priapulid, archaeopriapulid and palaeoscolecid worms in the light of new data

(2012) M. A. Wills et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Complex brain and optic lobes in an early Cambrian arthropod

(2012) Xiaoya Ma et al.   NATURE

The oral cone of Anomalocaris is not a classic ‘‘peytoia’’

(2012) Allison C. Daley et al.   NATURWISSENSCHAFTEN

MrBayes 3.2: Efficient Bayesian Phylogenetic Inference and Model Choice Across a Large Model Space

(2012) Fredrik Ronquist et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Form and function of the feeding apparatus in Eutardigrada (Tardigrada)

(2012) Roberto Guidetti et al.   ZOOMORPHOLOGY

Microdictyonplates from the lower Cambrian Ajax Limestone of South Australia: Implications for species taxonomy and diversity

(2011) Timothy P. Topper et al.   ALCHERINGA

Palaeonema phyticum gen. n., sp. n. (Nematoda: Palaeonematidae fam. n.), a Devonian nematode associated with early land plants

(2011) George Poinar et al.   NEMATOLOGY

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

Are palaeoscolecids ancestral ecdysozoans?

(2010) Thomas H. P. Harvey et al.   EVOLUTION & DEVELOPMENT

Priapulid worms: Pioneer horizontal burrowers at the Precambrian-Cambrian boundary

(2010) Jean Vannier et al.   GEOLOGY

Palaeontology: Decay distorts ancestry

(2010) Derek E. G. Briggs   NATURE

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

(2010) Robert S. Sansom et al.   NATURE

Phylogeny and evolutionary significance of vermiform animals from the Early Cambrian Chengjiang Lagerstätte

(2010) XiaoYa Ma et al.   Science China-Earth Sciences

Support for the monophyletic origin of Gnathifera from phylogenomics

(2009) Alexander Witek et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

The Burgess Shale Anomalocaridid Hurdia and Its Significance for Early Euarthropod Evolution

(2009) A. C. Daley et al.   SCIENCE

TNT, a free program for phylogenetic analysis

(2008) Pablo A. Goloboff et al.   CLADISTICS

Broad phylogenomic sampling improves resolution of the animal tree of life

(2008) Casey W. Dunn et al.   NATURE