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Possible poriferan body fossils in early Neoproterozoic microbial reefs.
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- Oxygen-binding proteins aid oxygen diffusion to enhance fitness of a yeast model of multicellularity.PLoS biology · 2025Article
- Spongy-looking microfabrics in the earliest named stromatolite represent deep burial alteration and incipient metamorphism.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Ediacaran origin and Ediacaran-Cambrian diversification of Metazoa.Science advances · 2024Article
- Proterozoic microfossils continue to provide new insights into the rise of complex eukaryotic life.Royal Society open science · 2024Review
- Transcriptomic responses of Mediterranean sponges upon encounter with symbiont microbial consortia.BMC genomics · 2024Article
- Silactins and Structural Diversity of Biosilica in Sponges.Biomimetics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- A late-Ediacaran crown-group sponge animal.Nature · 2024Article
- Two Notorious Nodes: A Critical Examination of Relaxed Molecular Clock Age Estimates of the Bilaterian Animals and Placental Mammals.Systematic biology · 2024Article
- Developmental biology ofProceedings. Biological sciences · 2024Article
- Respiration kinetics and allometric scaling in the demosponge Halichondria panicea.BMC ecology and evolution · 2023Article
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- Animal survival strategies in Neoproterozoic ice worlds.Global change biology · 2023Article
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Abstract
Molecular phylogeny indicates that metazoans (animals) emerged early in the Neoproterozoic era
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