Early post-metamorphic, Carboniferous blastoid reveals the evolution and development of the digestive system in echinoderms

Inferring the development of the earliest echinoderms is critical to uncovering the evolutionary assembly of the phylum-level body plan but has long proven problematic because early ontogenetic stages are rarely preserved as fossils. Here, we use synchrotron tomography to describe a new early post-m...

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Những tác giả chính: Rahman, I, Waters, J, Sumrall, C, Astolfo, A
Định dạng: Journal article
Ngôn ngữ:English
Được phát hành: Royal Society 2015