Life cycle evolution: was the eumetazoan ancestor a holopelagic, planktotrophic gastraea?

Cnidarian phylogenetic relationships as revealed by mitogenomics

(2013) Ehsan Kayal et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Analysis of ciliary band formation in the mollusc Ilyanassa obsoleta

(2013) Maey Gharbiah et al.   DEVELOPMENT GENES AND EVOLUTION

A merciful death for the “earliest bilaterian,” Vernanimalcula

(2012) Stefan Bengtson et al.   EVOLUTION & DEVELOPMENT

The other gastropod larvae: Larval morphogenesis in a marine neritimorph

(2012) Louise R. Page et al.   JOURNAL OF MORPHOLOGY

Effects of extra-embryonic provisioning on larval morphology and histogenesis inBoccardia proboscidea(Annelida, Spionidae)

(2012) Glenys Gibson et al.   JOURNAL OF MORPHOLOGY

Phylogenetic analysis of four nuclear protein-encoding genes largely corroborates the traditional classification of Bivalvia (Mollusca)

(2012) Prashant P. Sharma et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

A Silurian armoured aplacophoran and implications for molluscan phylogeny

(2012) Mark D. Sutton et al.   NATURE

Resolving phylogenetic signal from noise when divergence is rapid: A new look at the old problem of echinoderm class relationships

(2011) Davide Pisani et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

A molecular phylogeny of bryozoans

(2011) Andrea Waeschenbach et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Phylogenomic analyses unravel annelid evolution

(2011) Torsten H. Struck et al.   NATURE

Fossilized Nuclei and Germination Structures Identify Ediacaran "Animal Embryos" as Encysting Protists

(2011) T. Huldtgren et al.   SCIENCE

Co-option and dissociation in larval origins and evolution: the sea urchin larval gut

(2010) Alan C. Love et al.   EVOLUTION & DEVELOPMENT

Six major steps in animal evolution: are we derived sponge larvae?

(2010) Claus Nielsen   EVOLUTION & DEVELOPMENT

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

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

Invertebrate neurophylogeny: suggested terms and definitions for a neuroanatomical glossary

(2010) Stefan Richter et al.   Frontiers in Zoology

Structure and occurrence of cyphonautes larvae (bryozoa, ectoprocta)

(2010) Claus Nielsen et al.   JOURNAL OF MORPHOLOGY

Indirect development, transdifferentiation and the macroregulatory evolution of metazoans

(2010) C. Arenas-Mena   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The origin of Metazoa: a transition from temporal to spatial cell differentiation

(2009) Kirill V. Mikhailov et al.   BIOESSAYS

Coordinated shifts to non-planktotrophic development in spatangoid echinoids during the Late Cretaceous

(2009) J. A. Cunningham et al.   Biology Letters

Complex embryos displaying bilaterian characters from Precambrian Doushantuo phosphate deposits, Weng'an, Guizhou, China

(2009) Jun-Yuan Chen et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Deuterostomes in a twist: the origins of a radical new body plan

(2008) Andrew B. Smith   EVOLUTION & DEVELOPMENT

Morphology and wall ultrastructure of leiosphaeric and acanthomorphic acritarchs from the Ediacaran of Australia

(2008) S. WILLMAN   Geobiology

Origins of the other metazoan body plans: the evolution of larval forms

(2008) R. A Raff   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The earliest fossil record of the animals and its significance

(2008) G. E Budd   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES