Microbial decay analysis challenges interpretation of putative organ systems in Cambrian fuxianhuiids

The oldest known digestive system consisting of both paired digestive glands and a crop from exceptionally preserved trilobites of the Guanshan Biota (Early Cambrian, China)

(2017) Melanie J. Hopkins et al.   PLoS One

Waptia revisited: Intimations of behaviors

(2016) Nicholas J. Strausfeld   ARTHROPOD STRUCTURE & DEVELOPMENT

Fossils and the Evolution of the Arthropod Brain

(2016) Nicholas J. Strausfeld et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Fuxianhuiid ventral nerve cord and early nervous system evolution in Panarthropoda

(2016) Jie Yang et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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

(2016) Robert S. Sansom   Scientific Reports

A new fireworm (Amphinomidae) from the Cretaceous of Lebanon identified from three-dimensionally preserved myoanatomy

(2015) Luke A. Parry et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Detecting Regular Sound Changes in Linguistics as Events of Concerted Evolution

(2015) Daniel J. Hruschka et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Homology of Head Sclerites in Burgess Shale Euarthropods

(2015) Javier Ortega-Hernández   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Experimental taphonomy of Artemia reveals the role of endogenous microbes in mediating decay and fossilization

(2015) A. D. Butler et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

An “ancient” complexity? Evolutionary morphology of the circulatory system in Xiphosura

(2015) Torben Göpel et al.   ZOOLOGY

Brain structure resolves the segmental affinity of anomalocaridid appendages

(2014) Peiyun Cong et al.   NATURE

Specialized appendages in fuxianhuiids and the head organization of early euarthropods

(2013) Jie Yang et al.   NATURE

Chelicerate neural ground pattern in a Cambrian great appendage arthropod

(2013) Gengo Tanaka et al.   NATURE

Cambrian lobopodians: A review of recent progress in our understanding of their morphology and evolution

(2013) Jianni Liu et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Complex brain and optic lobes in an early Cambrian arthropod

(2012) Xiaoya Ma et al.   NATURE

An armoured Cambrian lobopodian from China with arthropod-like appendages

(2011) Jianni Liu et al.   NATURE

A New View of the Cambrian Arthropod Fuxianhuia

(2010) Jan Bergström et al.   GFF

QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS OF TAPHOFACIES AND PALEOCOMMUNITIES IN THE EARLY CAMBRIAN CHENGJIANG LAGERSTATTE

(2009) F. ZHAO et al.   PALAIOS