The role of symbiosis in the first colonization of the seafloor by macrobiota: Insights from the oldest Ediacaran biota (Newfoundland, Canada)

Ediacaran metazoan reveals lophotrochozoan affinity and deepens root of Cambrian Explosion

(2021) A. J. Shore et al.   Science Advances

A re-assessment of the taxonomy, palaeobiology and taphonomy of the rangeomorph organism Hapsidophyllas flexibilis from the Ediacaran of Newfoundland, Canada

(2021) Rod S. Taylor et al.   Palaeontologische Zeitschrift

Constructional and functional anatomy of Ediacaran rangeomorphs

(2020) Nicholas J Butterfield   GEOLOGICAL MAGAZINE

Heterotrophy in the earliest gut: a single-cell view of heterotrophic carbon and nitrogen assimilation in sponge-microbe symbioses

(2020) Laura Rix et al.   ISME Journal

The Ediacaran frondose fossil Arborea from the Shibantan limestone of South China

(2020) Xiaopeng Wang et al.   JOURNAL OF PALEONTOLOGY

Chemosynthetic symbioses

(2020) E. Maggie Sogin et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Palaeobiology of the reclining rangeomorph Beothukis from the Ediacaran Mistaken Point Formation of southeastern Newfoundland

(2020) Duncan McIlroy et al.   GEOLOGICAL MAGAZINE

Polychaete Invasion May Lead to Biogeochemical Change in Host Marine Environment

(2020) Cintia O. Quintana et al.   Journal of Marine Science and Engineering

The role of the “Thiodendron” consortium in postulating the karyomastigont chimaera of the endosymbiosis theory by Lynn Margulis

(2020) Margarita Y. Grabovich et al.   BIOSYSTEMS

The response of sulfur dioxygenase to sulfide in the body wall of Urechis unincinctus

(2019) Litao Zhang et al.   PeerJ

Simple sediment rheology explains the Ediacara biota preservation

(2019) Ilya Bobrovskiy et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Anatomical and ontogenetic reassessment of the Ediacaran frond Arborea arborea and its placement within total group Eumetazoa

(2019) Frances S. Dunn et al.   PALAEONTOLOGY

The Biogeochemical Sulfur Cycle of Marine Sediments

(2019) Bo Barker Jørgensen et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

The ventral epithelium of Trichoplax adhaerens deploys in distinct patterns cells that secrete digestive enzymes, mucus or diverse neuropeptides

(2019) Tatiana D. Mayorova et al.   Biology Open

Phagocytosis in cellular defense and nutrition: a food-centered approach to the evolution of macrophages

(2019) V. Hartenstein et al.   CELL AND TISSUE RESEARCH

Deconstructing an Ediacaran frond: three-dimensional preservation of Arborea from Ediacara, South Australia

(2018) Marc Laflamme et al.   JOURNAL OF PALEONTOLOGY

Spatial analyses of Ediacaran communities at Mistaken Point

(2018) Emily G. Mitchell et al.   PALEOBIOLOGY

Early Cambrian origin of the shelf sediment mixed layer

(2018) Romain C. Gougeon et al.   Nature Communications

The utility of height for the Ediacaran organisms of Mistaken Point

(2018) Emily G. Mitchell et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Effects of bioturbation on carbon and sulfur cycling across the Ediacaran–Cambrian transition at the GSSP in Newfoundland, Canada

(2018) Kalev G. Hantsoo et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF EARTH SCIENCES

A geochemical study of the Ediacaran discoidal fossil Aspidella preserved in limestones: Implications for its taphonomy and paleoecology

(2017) N. Bykova et al.   Geobiology

First non-destructive internal imaging of Rangea , an icon of complex Ediacaran life

(2017) Alana C. Sharp et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

Scour holes and ripples occur below the hydraulic smooth to rough transition of movable beds

(2017) Maarten G. Kleinhans et al.   SEDIMENTOLOGY

Forbidden fruits in the Garden of Ediacara

(2016) Dmitriy Grazhdankin   Palaeontologische Zeitschrift

FRAMBOIDAL PYRITE SHROUD CONFIRMS THE ‘DEATH MASK' MODEL FOR MOLDIC PRESERVATION OF EDIACARAN SOFT-BODIED ORGANISMS

(2016) ALEXANDER G. LIU   PALAIOS

The Role of Hydrogen Sulfide in Evolution and the Evolution of Hydrogen Sulfide in Metabolism and Signaling

(2016) Kenneth R. Olson et al.   PHYSIOLOGY

Forbidden fruits in the Garden of Ediacara

(2016) Dmitriy Grazhdankin   PalZ

Hydrogen Sulfide—Mechanisms of Toxicity and Development of an Antidote

(2016) Jingjing Jiang et al.   Scientific Reports

Remarkable insights into the paleoecology of the Avalonian Ediacaran macrobiota

(2015) Alexander G. Liu et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

Reconstructing the reproductive mode of an Ediacaran macro-organism

(2015) Emily G. Mitchell et al.   NATURE

The discs of Avalon: Relating discoid fossils to frondose organisms in the Ediacaran of Newfoundland, Canada

(2015) Greg Burzynski et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

TheBeothukis/Culmofronsproblem and its bearing on Ediacaran macrofossil taxonomy: evidence from an exceptional new fossil locality

(2015) Alexander G. Liu et al.   PALAEONTOLOGY

A new ecological model for the ∼565Ma Ediacaran biota of Mistaken Point, Newfoundland

(2015) Jonathan B. Antcliffe et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

Is Haootia quadriformis related to extant Staurozoa (Cnidaria)? Evidence from the muscular system reconsidered

(2015) L. S. Miranda et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Abundant toxin-related genes in the genomes of beneficial symbionts from deep-sea hydrothermal vent mussels

(2015) Lizbeth Sayavedra et al.   eLife

Giving the early fossil record of sponges a squeeze

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

CONFIRMING THE METAZOAN CHARACTER OF A 565 MA TRACE-FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE FROM MISTAKEN POINT, NEWFOUNDLAND

(2014) A. G. LIU et al.   PALAIOS

Fractal branching organizations of Ediacaran rangeomorph fronds reveal a lost Proterozoic body plan

(2014) J. F. Hoyal Cuthill et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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

Evidence for Cnidaria-like behavior in ca. 560 Ma Ediacaran Aspidella

(2013) Latha R. Menon et al.   GEOLOGY

Reconstructing Rangea: new discoveries from the Ediacaran of southern Namibia

(2013) Patricia Vickers-Rich et al.   JOURNAL OF PALEONTOLOGY

Animals in a bacterial world, a new imperative for the life sciences

(2013) Margaret McFall-Ngai et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The architecture of Ediacaran Fronds

(2012) MARTIN D. BRASIER et al.   PALAEONTOLOGY

First report of Crumillospongia (Demospongea) from the Cambrian of Europe (Murero biota, Spain)

(2011) D.C. García-Bellido et al.   BULLETIN OF GEOSCIENCES

John Salter and the Ediacara Fauna of the Longmyndian Supergroup

(2011) Richard H. T. Callow et al.   ICHNOS-AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR PLANT AND ANIMAL TRACES

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

(2011) D. H. Erwin et al.   SCIENCE

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

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

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

(2010) Alexander G. Liu et al.   GEOLOGY

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

(2010) Alexander G. Liu et al.   GEOLOGY

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

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

CHARNIA AT 50: DEVELOPMENTAL MODELS FOR EDIACARAN FRONDS

(2010) JONATHAN B. ANTCLIFFE et al.   PALAEONTOLOGY

Effaced preservation in the Ediacara biota and its implications for the early macrofossil record

(2010) ALEXANDER G. LIU et al.   PALAEONTOLOGY

VARIATION IN BURROW-WALL MICROMORPHOLOGIES OF SELECT INTERTIDAL INVERTEBRATES ALONG THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST COAST, USA: BEHAVIORAL AND DIAGENETIC IMPLICATIONS

(2010) M.E. ZORN et al.   PALAIOS

New ediacaran rangeomorphs from Mistaken Point, Newfoundland, Canada

(2009) Emily L. Bamforth et al.   JOURNAL OF PALEONTOLOGY

Evolutionary relationships within the Avalonian Ediacara biota: new insights from laser analysis

(2009) Martin D. Brasier et al.   JOURNAL OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY

Smothering of microbial mats by macrobiota: implications for the Ediacara biota

(2009) DUNCAN McILROY et al.   JOURNAL OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY

Osmotrophy in modular Ediacara organisms

(2009) M. Laflamme et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Redox regulation of mitochondrial sulfide oxidation in the lugworm, Arenicola marina

(2008) T. M. Hildebrandt et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

The Morphology of Bacterial Symbioses in the Gills of Mussels of the Genera Adipicola and Idas (Bivalvia: Mytilidae)

(2008) Eve C. Southward   JOURNAL OF SHELLFISH RESEARCH

Oxygen dynamics of marine sediments

(2008) Ronnie N. Glud   Marine Biology Research

Symbiotic diversity in marine animals: the art of harnessing chemosynthesis

(2008) Nicole Dubilier et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

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