Leanchoiliidae reveals the ancestral organization of the stem euarthropod brain

Fuxianhuiids are mandibulates and share affinities with total-group Myriapoda

(2021) Cédric Aria et al.   JOURNAL OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY

The origin and evolution of the euarthropod labrum

(2021) Graham E. Budd   ARTHROPOD STRUCTURE & DEVELOPMENT

six3 acts upstream of foxQ2 in labrum and neural development in the spider Parasteatoda tepidariorum

(2020) Magdalena Ines Schacht et al.   DEVELOPMENT GENES AND EVOLUTION

Visual pathways in the brain of the jumping spider Marpissa muscosa

(2020) Philip O. M. Steinhoff et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE NEUROLOGY

Biogenic Iron Preserves Structures during Fossilization: A Hypothesis

(2020) Farid Saleh et al.   BIOESSAYS

A Reduced Labrum in a Cambrian Great-Appendage Euarthropod

(2020) Yu Liu et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Spider vision

(2020) Nathan Morehouse   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Disparate compound eyes of Cambrian radiodonts reveal their developmental growth mode and diverse visual ecology

(2020) John R. Paterson et al.   Science Advances

Canadia spinosa and the early evolution of the annelid nervous system

(2019) Luke Parry et al.   Science Advances

An ancestral apical brain region contributes to the central complex under the control of foxQ2 in the beetle Tribolium

(2019) Bicheng He et al.   eLife

Gut glands illuminate trunk segmentation in Cambrian fuxianhuiids

(2018) Javier Ortega-Hernández et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

The Weeks Formation Konservat-Lagerstätte and the evolutionary transition of Cambrian marine life

(2018) Rudy Lerosey-Aubril et al.   JOURNAL OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY

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

(2018) Tae-Yoon S. Park et al.   Nature Communications

Also looking like Limulus? – retinula axons and visual neuropils of Amblypygi (whip spiders)

(2018) Tobias Lehmann et al.   Frontiers in Zoology

Comparative analysis of gene expression patterns in the arthropod labrum and the onychophoran frontal appendages, and its implications for the arthropod head problem

(2017) Ralf Janssen   EvoDevo

Central nervous system and muscular bundles preserved in a 240 million year old giant bristletail (Archaeognatha: Machilidae)

(2017) Matteo Montagna et al.   Scientific Reports

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

(2016) Nicholas J. Strausfeld et al.   ARTHROPOD STRUCTURE & DEVELOPMENT

Preservational Pathways of Corresponding Brains of a Cambrian Euarthropod

(2015) Xiaoya Ma et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Homology of Head Sclerites in Burgess Shale Euarthropods

(2015) Javier Ortega-Hernández   CURRENT BIOLOGY

The Dynamic Evolutionary History of Pancrustacean Eyes and Opsins

(2015) Miriam J. Henze et al.   INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY

A large new leanchoiliid from the Burgess Shale and the influence of inapplicable states on stem arthropod phylogeny

(2015) Cédric Aria et al.   PALAEONTOLOGY

Differential expression of retinal determination genes in the principal and secondary eyes of Cupiennius salei Keyserling (1877)

(2015) Leyli Samadi et al.   EvoDevo

Molecular characterization and embryonic origin of the eyes in the common house spider Parasteatoda tepidariorum

(2015) Christoph Schomburg et al.   EvoDevo

What big eyes you have: the ecological role of giant pterygotid eurypterids

(2014) R. P. Anderson et al.   Biology Letters

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

Morphology and systematics of the anomalocaridid arthropodHurdiafrom the Middle Cambrian of British Columbia and Utah

(2013) Allison C. Daley et al.   JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC PALAEONTOLOGY

Chelicerate neural ground pattern in a Cambrian great appendage arthropod

(2013) Gengo Tanaka et al.   NATURE

Morphology and function in the Cambrian Burgess Shale megacheiran arthropod Leanchoilia superlata and the application of a descriptive matrix

(2012) Joachim T Haug et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Complex brain and optic lobes in an early Cambrian arthropod

(2012) Xiaoya Ma et al.   NATURE

Dispersal between Shallow and Abyssal Seas and Evolutionary Loss and Regain of Compound Eyes in Cylindroleberidid Ostracods: Conflicting Conclusions from Different Comparative Methods

(2011) Anna E. Syme et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

On the Origin and Evolution of the Tripartite Brain

(2010) Frank Hirth   BRAIN BEHAVIOR AND EVOLUTION

The insect upper lip (labrum) is a nonsegmental appendage-like structure

(2009) Nico Posnien et al.   EVOLUTION & DEVELOPMENT

Evolution of the central complex in the arthropod brain with respect to the visual system

(2008) Uwe Homberg   ARTHROPOD STRUCTURE & DEVELOPMENT