Evidence for gill slits and a pharynx in Cambrian vetulicolians: implications for the early evolution of deuterostomes

Pikaia gracilens Walcott, a stem-group chordate from the Middle Cambrian of British Columbia

(2012) Simon Conway Morris et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Ancient deuterostome origins of vertebrate brain signalling centres

(2012) Ariel M. Pani et al.   NATURE

Plated Cambrian Bilaterians Reveal the Earliest Stages of Echinoderm Evolution

(2012) Samuel Zamora et al.   PLoS One

Exceptionally preserved crustaceans from western Canada reveal a cryptic Cambrian radiation

(2012) T. H. P. Harvey et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Cephalopod origin and evolution: A congruent picture emerging from fossils, development and molecules

(2011) Björn Kröger et al.   BIOESSAYS

Acoelomorph flatworms are deuterostomes related to Xenoturbella

(2011) Hervé Philippe et al.   NATURE

Comparative jet wake structure and swimming performance of salps

(2010) K. R. Sutherland et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Primitive soft-bodied cephalopods from the Cambrian

(2010) Martin R. Smith et al.   NATURE

Distinguishing heat from light in debate over controversial fossils

(2009) Philip C. J. Donoghue et al.   BIOESSAYS

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

(2009) A. C. Daley et al.   SCIENCE

An aboral-dorsalization hypothesis for chordate origin

(2008) Nori Satoh   GENESIS

Early crest animals and the insight they provide into the evolutionary origin of craniates

(2008) Jun-Yuan Chen   GENESIS

Broad phylogenomic sampling improves resolution of the animal tree of life

(2008) Casey W. Dunn et al.   NATURE