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  • Internal organs are hard to fossilize and so far only digestive and nervous systems have been described for the Cambrian arthropod Fuxianhuia protensa. Here, Ma et al. describe cardiovascular structures of F. protensaand show that they are similar to the vascular system of extant arthropods.

    • Xiaoya Ma
    • Peiyun Cong
    • Nicholas J. Strausfeld
    Research
    Nature Communications
    Volume: 5, P: 1-7

  • Modern arthropods present niche differentiation between larvae and adult stages. Here, Liu et al. describe a larval fossil of Leanchoilia illecebrosa, an early Cambrian arthropod from China, and show a feeding appendage, unknown in adults, that suggests that niche differentiation originated in the early Cambrian.

    • Yu Liu
    • Joachim T. Haug
    • Xianguang Hou
    Research
    Nature Communications
    Volume: 5, P: 1-5

  • The common ancestor of all living arthropods had biramous postantennal appendages, with an endopodite and exopodite branching off the limb base. This study uses microtomographic imaging of the Cambrian arthropod Leanchoilia to reveal a previously undetected exite at the base of most appendages, suggesting a deeper origin for exites in arthropod phylogeny.

    • Yu Liu
    • Gregory D. Edgecombe
    • Xianguang Hou
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Communications
    Volume: 12, P: 1-7

  • A new species of worm from the early Cambrian period of China may represent the earliest evidence for host-specific infestation in bilaterians.

    • Peiyun Cong
    • Xiaoya Ma
    • Xianguang Hou
    Research
    Nature Ecology & Evolution
    Volume: 1, P: 1465-1469

    • Peiyun Cong
    • Xiaoya Ma
    • Nicholas J. Strausfeld
    Research
    Nature
    Volume: 516, P: E3-E4

  • Cambrian great appendage arthropods had heads that bore a claw-like appendage pair; neuroanatomical and phylogenetic analysis of a well-preserved Alalcomenaeus fossil reveals the relationship of great appendage arthropods to Chelicerata.

    • Gengo Tanaka
    • Xianguang Hou
    • Nicholas J. Strausfeld
    Research
    Nature
    Volume: 502, P: 364-367

  • An arthropod specimen from an early Cambrian deposit in China shows a nervous system very similar to that of modern insects and crustaceans, suggesting that insect and crustacean nervous systems evolved from a relatively complex ancestral one, and that simple animals, such as branchiopod shrimps, have evolved a marked reduction in the complexity of their nervous systems.

    • Xiaoya Ma
    • Xianguang Hou
    • Nicholas J. Strausfeld
    Research
    Nature
    Volume: 490, P: 258-261

  • Arthropods typically possess two eye systems—one pair of compound eyes and ocellar median eyes. Pygmaclypeatus daziensis, a Lower Cambrian arthropod, is equipped with two pairs of different compound eyes—ventrally stalked, movable compound eyes and dorsally, trilobite-like sessile ones.

    • Michel Schmidt
    • Brigitte Schoenemann
    • Yu Liu
    ResearchOpen Access
    Communications Biology
    Volume: 8, P: 1-12

  • Li et al. report surface fouling of the early Cambrian animal Vetulicola by small, encrusting tubular organisms from the Chengjiang biota of Yunnan Province in China, a ~518 million year old marine deposit. These specimens provide evidence for early escalation of intimate ecologies and biofouling as a previously unrecognised component of the evolution of early marine ecosystems.

    • Yujing Li
    • Mark Williams
    • Peiyun Cong
    ResearchOpen Access
    Communications Biology
    Volume: 3, P: 1-9

  • Dannychaeta tucolus, a bristle worm from the early Cambrian period, belongs to crown annelids, and has characters that provide evidence of ecological and morphological diversity in ancient annelids, thus reconciling the fossil record with molecular phylogenetic analyses.

    • Hong Chen
    • Luke A. Parry
    • Xiaoya Ma
    Research
    Nature
    Volume: 583, P: 249-252