Brain structure resolves the segmental affinity of anomalocaridid appendages

Nature

Volumn 513, Issue 7519, 2014, Pages 538-542

  Cong, Peiyun ^a   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

CARBON;

ANATOMY; ARTHROPOD; BIOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS; BRAIN; CAMBRIAN; CLADISTICS; MOLT; NEW SPECIES;

ANIMAL STRUCTURES; ARTHROPOD; ARTICLE; BRAIN; BRAIN GANGLION; CARBON SOURCE; CHINA; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; FOSSIL ANIMAL; FRONTAL APPENDAGE; GENE EXPRESSION; LAST COMMON ANCESTOR; LOWER CAMBRIAN; LYRARAPAX UNGUISPINUS; MUSCLE; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROPIL; NONHUMAN; ONYCHOPHORA; OPTIC TRACT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA; ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; EVOLUTION; FOSSIL; GANGLION; HISTOLOGY; INNERVATION; LIMB;

CHINA;

ARTHROPODA; CHELICERATA; ECDYSOZOA; ONYCHOPHORA; RADIODONTA;

ANIMALS; ARTHROPODS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BRAIN; CHINA; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; EXTREMITIES; FOSSILS; GANGLIA; MUSCLES; NEUROPIL; RETINA;

EID: 84908546301     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature13486     Document Type: Article

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