Deuterostomes are the major division of animal life which includes sea stars, acorn worms,
and humans, among a wide variety of ecologically and morphologically disparate taxa …

Monoamines like serotonin, dopamine, and adrenaline/noradrenaline (epinephrine/
norepinephrine) act as neuromodulators in the nervous system. They play a role in complex …

Vestimentiferan tubeworms are iconic animals that present as large habitat-forming
chitinized tube bushes in deep-sea chemosynthetic ecosystems. They are gutless and …

The record of the coevolution of oxygenic phototrophs and the environment is preserved in
three forms: genomes of modern organisms, diverse geochemical signals of surface …

Biosilicification has driven variation in the global Si cycle over geologic time. The evolution
of different eukaryotic lineages that convert dissolved Si (DSi) into mineralized structures …

Understanding animal terrestrialization, the process through which animals colonized the
land, is crucial to clarify extant biodiversity and biological adaptation. Arthropoda (insects …

The morphologically differentiated benthic macrofossils of algae and putative animal
affinities of the Lantian biota in China represents the oldest known Ediacaran macroscopic …

Horizontal transfer of transposable elements (HTT) is an important process shaping
eukaryote genomes, yet very few studies have quantified this phenomenon on a large scale …

The phylogenetic placement of the morphologically simple placozoans is crucial to
understanding the evolution of complex animal traits. Here, we examine the influence of …

Trilobites are often considered exemplary for understanding the Cambrian explosion of
animal life, due to their unsurpassed diversity and abundance. These biomineralized …