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    Sophisticated digestive systems in early arthropods

    Understanding the way in which animals diversified and radiated during their early evolutionary history remains one of the most captivating of scientific challenges. Integral to this is the ‘Cambrian explosion...

    Jean Vannier, Jianni Liu, Rudy Lerosey-Aubril, Jakob Vinther… in Nature Communications (2014)

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    A sclerite-bearing stem group entoproct from the early Cambrian and its implications

    The Lophotrochozoa includes disparate tentacle-bearing sessile protostome animals, which apparently appeared in the Cambrian explosion, but lack an uncontested fossil record. Here we describe abundant well pre...

    Zhifei Zhang, Lars E. Holmer, Christian B. Skovsted, Glenn A. Brock… in Scientific Reports (2013)

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    Liu et al. reply

    Replying to R. C. P. Mounce & M. Wills Nature 476, 10.1038/nature10266 (2011); D. A. Legg et al. Nature 476 10.1038/nature10267 (2011)

    Jianni Liu, Michael Steiner, Jason A. Dunlop, Helmut Keupp, Degan Shu, Qiang Ou… in Nature (2011)

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    An armoured Cambrian lobopodian from China with arthropod-like appendages

    Jointed limbs in arthropods are a key innovation that facilitated the evolution of the world's most species-rich animal group. Their ancestors may lie among a group of extinct animals called lobopodians, which...

    Jianni Liu, Michael Steiner, Jason A. Dunlop, Helmut Keupp, Degan Shu, Qiang Ou… in Nature (2011)

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    Comparative study of Cambrian lobopods Miraluolishania and Luolishania

    The rare fossil Miraluolishania described by Liu et al. from the Lower Cambrian Chengjiang Lagerstätte in 2004 is regarded as an arthropod sphinx because it bears mosaic features of both lobopods and arthropods. ...

    JianNi Liu, DeGan Shu, Jian Han, ZhiFei Zhang in Chinese Science Bulletin (2008)

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    Preliminary notes on soft-bodied fossil concentrations from the Early Cambrian Chengjiang deposits

    The efforts of labor-intensive collecting in the Early Cambrian Chengjiang deposits in eastern Yunnan Province, China led to the discovery of many horizons containing exceptionally well preserved soft-bodied f...

    Jian Han, Degan Shu, Zhifei Zhang, Jianni Liu, **ngliang Zhang… in Chinese Science Bulletin (2006)

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    New observations of the lobopod-like worm Facivermis from the early cambrian Chengjiang Lagerstätte

    Facivermis yunnanicus (Hou & Chen, 1989), from the Early Cambrian Chengjiang Lagerstätte, a worm-like fossil with 5 pairs of tentacles and a perceived shrunken end, has been regarded as related to polychaetes, l...

    Jianni Liu, Jian Han, M. Simonettaa, Shixue Hu, Zhifei Zhang… in Chinese Science Bulletin (2006)

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    The earliest-known ancestors of Recent Priapulomorpha from the Early Cambrian Chengjiang Lagerstätte

    The taxonomy of an early ancestor of Recent Priapulidae,**aoheiqingella peculiaris (=Yunnanpriapulus halteroformis Huang et al., 2004) from the Early Cambrian Chengjiang fossil Lagerstätte, is revised. Morphologi...

    Jian Han, Degan Shu, Zhifei Zhang, Jianni Liu in Chinese Science Bulletin (2004)

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    A rare lobopod with well-preserved eyes from Chengjiang Lagerstätte and its implications for origin of arthropods

    The origin of arthropods has long been one of the most hotly-debated subjects. Arthropods used to be thought closely related with annelids, but the two groups are now believed to be separated into two major re...

    Jianni Liu, Degan Shu, Jian Han, Zhifei Zhang in Chinese Science Bulletin (2004)