Imperial College London
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DrMarkSutton

Faculty of Engineering, Department of Earth Science & Engineering

Reader in Palaeontology
 
 
 
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G.25Royal School of MinesSouth Kensington Campus

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@article{Briggs:2016:10.1073/pnas.1600489113,
author = {Briggs, DEG and Siveter, DJ and Siveter, DJ and Sutton, MD and Legg, D},
doi = {10.1073/pnas.1600489113},
journal = {Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America},
pages = {4410--4415},
title = {Tiny individuals attached to a new Silurian arthropod suggest a unique mode of brood care},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1600489113},
volume = {113},
year = {2016}
}
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TY  - JOUR
AB  - The ∼430-My-old Herefordshire, United Kingdom, Lagerstätte has yielded a diversity of remarkably preserved invertebrates, many of which provide fundamental insights into the evolutionary history and ecology of particular taxa. Here we report a new arthropod with 10 tiny arthropods tethered to its tergites by long individual threads. The head of the host, which is covered by a shield that projects anteriorly, bears a long stout uniramous antenna and a chelate limb followed by two biramous appendages. The trunk comprises 11 segments, all bearing limbs and covered by tergites with long slender lateral spines. A short telson bears long parallel cerci. Our phylogenetic analysis resolves the new arthropod as a stem-group mandibulate. The evidence suggests that the tethered individuals are juveniles and the association represents a complex brooding behavior. Alternative possibilities—that the tethered individuals represent a different epizoic or parasitic arthropod—appear less likely.
AU  - Briggs,DEG
AU  - Siveter,DJ
AU  - Siveter,DJ
AU  - Sutton,MD
AU  - Legg,D
DO  - 10.1073/pnas.1600489113
EP  - 4415
PY  - 2016///
SN  - 0027-8424
SP  - 4410
TI  - Tiny individuals attached to a new Silurian arthropod suggest a unique mode of brood care
T2  - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1600489113
UR  - https://www.pnas.org/content/113/16/4410
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/31034
VL  - 113
ER  -
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