Complex brain and optic lobes in an early Cambrian arthropod

Nature

Volumn 490, Issue 7419, 2012, Pages 258-261

  Ma, Xiaoya ^a,b   Hou, Xianguang ^a   Edgecombe, Gregory D ^b   Strausfeld, Nicholas J ^c  

^a YUNNAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; CAMBRIAN; FOSSIL RECORD; INSECT; NERVOUS SYSTEM; PHYLOGENY; PRESERVATION; VISION;

ARTHROPOD; ARTICLE; CAMBRIAN; FOSSIL; FUXIANHUIA PROTENSA; HEXAPOD; MALACOSTRACA; NONHUMAN; OPTIC LOBE; PALEOANTHROPOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; ARTHROPODS; BRAIN; FOSSILS; OPTIC LOBE, NONMAMMALIAN;

EID: 84867303781     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature11495     Document Type: Article

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