Cell differentiation and germ-soma separation in Ediacaran animal embryo-like fossils

Nature

Volumn 516, Issue 7530, 2014, Pages 238-241

  Chen, Lei ^a,b   Xiao, Shuhai ^c   Pang, Ke ^a,b   Zhou, Chuanming ^a   Yuan, Xunlai ^a,d  

^a NANJING INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND PALAEONTOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d NORTHWEST UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APOPTOSIS; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; EDIACARAN; EMBRYO; FOSSIL RECORD; GERM CELL; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MICROFOSSIL; PHYLOGENETICS;

APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION; BLASTULA; CELL ADHESION; CELL AGGREGATION; CELL COUNT; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL GROWTH; CELL SEPARATION; CELL SIZE; CELL VOLUME; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; EDIACARAN; GERM CELL; GREEN ALGA; LIFE CYCLE STAGE; MEGASPHAERA; MEIOSIS; MICROFOSSIL; NONHUMAN; PALEONTOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTIST; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SYMBIONT; ANIMAL; ANIMAL EMBRYO; CHINA; CLASSIFICATION; CYTOLOGY; EUKARYOTIC CELL; FOSSIL;

ALGAE; ANIMALIA; BILATERIA; CHLOROPHYTA; EUKARYOTA; ICHTHYOSPOREA; PROTISTA;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; BLASTULA; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CHINA; CHLOROPHYTA; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; EUKARYOTIC CELLS; FOSSILS; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 84922480512     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature13766     Document Type: Article

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