Fossil-inclusive systematics of panarthropods
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lobopodian evolution, the cradle of the arthropod body plan
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the ancestral traits of true arthropods
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The megacheirans, or “great-appendage arthropods”, revisited
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Hymenocarines, fuxianhuiids, and the origin of mandibulates
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The origin and early evolution of chelicerates
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Exploring arthropod morphological diversity
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