Cambrian lobopodians and extant onychophorans provide new insights into early cephalization in Panarthropoda

Nature Communications

Volumn 3, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Ou, Qiang ^a   Shu, Degan ^a,b   Mayer, Georg ^c  

^a CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

^b NORTHWEST UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTHROPOD; CAMBRIAN; EMBRYO; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; FOSSIL RECORD; MORPHOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; PRESERVATION;

ARTHROPOD; ARTICLE; CHINA; HEAD; LOBOPODIUM; MOUTH; NONHUMAN; ONYCHODICTYON FEROX; ONYCHOPHORA; TARDIGRADA; TRUNK;

ANIMALS; ARTHROPODS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CHINA; EXTREMITIES; FOSSILS; HEAD; MOUTH;

CHINA;

ARTHROPODA; ONYCHOPHORA; PANARTHROPODA; TARDIGRADA;

EID: 84871796554     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms2272     Document Type: Article

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