Canopy Flow Analysis Reveals the Advantage of Size in the Oldest Communities of Multicellular Eukaryotes

• Main Authors: Ghisalberti, Marco, Gold, David A, Laflamme, Marc, Clapham, Matthew E, Narbonne, Guy M, Summons, Roger E, Johnston, David T, Jacobs, David K
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: eScholarship, University of California 2014
• Subjects: Biological Evolution; Eukaryota; Biological Sciences; Medical and Health Sciences; Psychology and Cognitive Sciences; Developmental Biology; Canada; Mistaken Point; Newfoundland
• Online Access: https://escholarship.org/uc/item/46r7q1dh

Video abstractAt Mistaken Point, Newfoundland, Canada, rangeomorph "fronds" dominate the earliest (579-565 million years ago) fossil communities of large (0.1 to 2 m height) multicellular benthic eukaryotes. They lived in low-flow environments, fueled by uptake [1-3] of dissolved reactants...