Brain and eyes of Kerygmachela reveal protocerebral ancestry of the panarthropod head

• Published in: Nature Communications
• Main Authors: Park, Tae-Yoon S., Kihm, Ji-Hoon, Woo, Jusun, Park, Changkun, Lee, Won Young, Smith, M. Paul, Harper, David A. T., Young, Fletcher, Nielsen, Arne T., Vinther, Jakob
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Nature Publishing Group UK 2018
• Subjects: Article; Greenland; Sirius; North Greenland
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5844904/; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29523785; https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-03464-w

Recent discoveries of fossil nervous tissue in Cambrian fossils have allowed researchers to trace the origin and evolution of the complex arthropod head and brain based on stem groups close to the origin of the clade, rather than on extant, highly derived members. Here we show that Kerygmachela from...