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Ecdysis in a stem-group euarthropod from the early Cambrian of China

Moulting is a fundamental component of the ecdysozoan life cycle, but the fossil record of this strategy is susceptible to preservation biases, making evidence of ecdysis in soft-bodied organisms extremely rare. Here, we report an exceptional specimen of the fuxianhuiid Alacaris mirabilis preserved...

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Autores principales: Yang, Jie, Ortega-Hernández, Javier, Drage, Harriet B., Du, Kun-sheng, Zhang, Xi-guang
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6450865/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30952888
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-41911-w