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SUBMITTER: Topper TP
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6433856 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Topper Timothy P TP Guo Junfeng J Clausen Sébastien S Skovsted Christian B CB Zhang Zhifei Z
Nature communications 20190325 1
Deuterostomes are a morphologically disparate clade, encompassing the chordates (including vertebrates), the hemichordates (the vermiform enteropneusts and the colonial tube-dwelling pterobranchs) and the echinoderms (including starfish). Although deuterostomes are considered monophyletic, the inter-relationships between the three clades remain highly contentious. Here we report, Yanjiahella biscarpa, a bilaterally symmetrical, solitary metazoan from the early Cambrian (Fortunian) of China with ...[more]