funded by the U.S.National Science Foundation(Award DEB-1916263 to M.S.C.);the Clemson University Experiment Station(SC-1700596 to M.S.C.).
We are far from knowing all species living on the planet.Understanding biodiversity is demanding and requires time and expertise.Most groups are understudied given problems of identifying and delimiting species.DNA ba...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 41730318, 42162002 and 42202003);the Innovative Research Fund of Yuxi Normal University (Grant No. 202111390020)。
We report the extraordinarily preserved euarthropod Sidneyia minor sp.nov.from the Cambrian Stage 3 Xiaoshiba Lagerst?tte in Yunnan,South China.So far this is the earliest occurrence of the genus.As with other species...
supported by the Second Tibetan Plateau Scientific Expedition and Research(STEP)Program(2019QZKK0302);Natural Science Foundation of Gansu Province(20JR5RA252);Innovation and Entrepreneurship Project of Lanzhou University(20210010020,20210010002)。
Spiders are among the most varied terrestrial predators,with highly diverse morphology,ecology,and behavior.Morphological and molecular data have greatly contributed to advances in the phylogeny and evolutionary dynam...
supported by the Strategic Priority Research Program of Chinese Academy of Sciences(XDB26000000);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(41972006,41688103);the Key Research Program of Frontier Sciences of Chinese Academy of Sciences(QYZDB-SSWDQC040);the program of State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy(Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology,Chinese Academy of Sciences,NIGPAS)(183101).
Eurypterids,or sea scorpions,are an important group of midPaleozoic chelicerate arthropods whose evolution and palaeoecological significance have attracted much attention in recent years[1–3].One of the most remarkab...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (31772509, 31970438, 31471958, 31772510);the Basic Research Foundation of Shanghai Science & Technology Museum
Two new species of Protura are described:Baculentulus wenyingae sp.nov.and Pseudanisentomon lishuiensis sp.nov.Baculentulus wenyingae sp.nov.is characterized by the combined characters of the presence of foretarsal se...
supported by Project 973 of the Ministry of Science and Technology of China(2013837100);the Strategic Priority Research Program of Chinese Academy of Sciences(XDB26010104);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(41222014,41172023,41621003,41102012);the 111Project and the Ministry of Education of China for Chengjiang Scholars to J.L.;an Australian Research Council Future Fellowship(FT120100770)to J.R.P
The rapid rise of arthropods during the Cambrian quickly established some clades, such as the euarthropod stem-group called Radiodonta, as the dominant and most diverse predators in marine ecosystems. Recent discoveri...
financed by the Major Basic Research Project of the Ministry of Science and Technology of China (Grants 2013CB837100, 2013CB806400);the Natural Science Foundation of China (Grants 41202007, 41272019 and 40830208)
The bivalved arthropod Branchiocaris? yunnanensis Hou, 1987 is redescribed on the basis of new fossil material from the early Cambrian Chengjiang biota, South China. In total, 81 specimens have been examined. The car...