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Ways of “Control”: Changes and Implications from China’s Reform of State-Owned Enterprises
This article aims to provide the necessary knowledge of China’s current regulation and basic facts about Chinese SOEs/SCEs as the basis for further discussion. It primarily focuses on China’s methods of contro...
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The Mesozoic maximum of 87Sr/86Sr ratio: a critical turning point after the end-Permian mass extinction
The secular change in 87Sr/86Sr ratio of the Mesozoic recorded the highest value above 0.7083 in Early–Middle Triassic boundary, i.e., the Triassic maximum, suggesting that a major reform in oceanography occurred...
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Erratum to: Palaeoecological Analysis of Trace Fossil Sinusichnus sinuosus from the Middle Triassic Guanling Formation in Southwestern China
The original version of this article unfortunately contained a mistake. The title was incorrect. The corrected one is given below.
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Palaeoecological Analysis of Trace Fossil Sinusichnus sinuosus from the Middle Triassic Guanling Formationin Southwestern China
The Luo** Biota discovered from the early Middle Triassic (Anisian) Guanling Formation of southwestern China represents a fully recovered shallow marine ecosystem, marking the end point of Early Triassic bio...
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Open AccessExceptional appendage and soft-tissue preservation in a Middle Triassic horseshoe crab from SW China
Horseshoe crabs are classic “living fossils”, supposedly slowly evolving, conservative taxa, with a long fossil record back to the Ordovician. The evolution of their exoskeleton is well documented by fossils, ...
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Early Triassic stromatolites from the **ngyi area, Guizhou Province, southwest China: geobiological features and environmental implications
An Early Triassic stromatolitic deposit is documented in the Dienerian succession of the Lower Triassic Feixianguan Formation in the **ngyi area, Guizhou, southwest China. Five types of constructional microbia...
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Nothosaur foraging tracks from the Middle Triassic of southwestern China
The seas of the Mesozoic (266–66 Myr ago) were remarkable for predatory marine reptiles, but their modes of locomotion have been debated. One problem has been the absence of tracks, although there is no reason...
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Open AccessNew anomalocardid frontal appendages from the Guanshan biota, eastern Yunnan
Anomalocaridids were large predators of the Cambrian seas at the top of the trophic pyramid. Complete anomalocaridid specimens have been rarely discovered and the rigid isolated frontal appendages and mouthpar...
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Open AccessComplexity and diversity of eyes in Early Cambrian ecosystems
Here we report exceptionally preserved non-biomineralized compound eyes of a non-trilobite arthropod Cindarella eucalla from the lower Cambrian Chengjiang Lagerstätte, China. The specimen represents the oldest mi...
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The Unique Invention of the Siliceous Sponges: Their Enzymatically Made Bio-Silica Skeleton
Sponges are sessile filter feeders that, among the metazoans, evolved first on Earth. In the two classes of the siliceous sponges (the Demospongiae and the Hexactinellida), the complex filigreed body is stabil...
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Biodiversity and taphonomy of the Early Cambrian Guanshan biota, eastern Yunnan
The Guanshan biota from eastern Yunnan (Cambrian Series 2, early Stage 4) is a Burgess Shale-type fossil biota with abundant exceptionally preserved soft-bodied fossils after the discovery of the well-known Ca...
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Community structure and composition of the Cambrian Chengjiang biota
Based on previously published species data (228 species in over 18 phyla) and field sampling (114 species and 18406 individuals) in the Chengjiang-Haikou-Anning area, we analyzed quantitatively the paleocommun...
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Isotopic dating of the Chengjiang Fauna-bearing horizon in Central Yunnan Province, China
Twenty black shale samples, which are free from the influence of weathering, were collected from the Chengjiang Fauna-bearing horizon, central Yunnan Province, yielding a Pb-Pb isochron age of 534±60 Ma. Altho...
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Eocrinoid echinoderms from the Lower Cambrian Guanshan Fauna in Wuding, Yunnan, China
This is a brief report of a new occurrence of eocrinoids from the Early Cambrian Wulongqing Formation in Yunnan, China. The eocrinoids from the Guanshan fauna are among the earliest known eocrinoids. Different...
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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...
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Response to “Discussion on the systematic position of the early cambrian priapulomorph worms”
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The role of recombinant Rb gene adenovirus vector in the growth of lung adenocarcinoma cells
Objective: To study the role of the most extensively studied tumor suppressor gene, retinoblastoma (Rb) gene, on the growth of lung adenocarcinoma cell line GLC-82 and explore a gene therapy approach for lung ...
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Adenovirus-mediated wild-type P53 expression suppresses growth of lung adeno-carcinoma cells
Objective: To study the growth suppression of lung adenocarcinoma cell by the introduction of wild-type P53 gene and explore a gene therapy approach for lung adenocarcinoma. Methods: A replication-deficient ad...