A screen grab of a YNU paleontology study published online in Current Biology, a renowned journal affiliated with the Cell Press, on Dec 27. [Photo/ynu.eud.cn]

A research finding by academics at Yunnan University (YNU) in the field of paleontology was reported online by Current Biology, a renowned journal affiliated with the Cell Press, on Dec 27. 

The paper, titled “Three-dimensionally preserved appendages in an early Cambrian stem-group pancrustacean”, was written by Zhai Dayou, deputy researcher at YNU’s Yunnan Key Laboratory for Paleontology and the laboratory’s researchers Liu Yu and Hou Xianguang; Doctor Javier Ortega-Hernández of the University of Cambridge; Doctor Joanna Wolfe of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, as well as Cao Chunjie, engineer at Carl Zeiss AG. 

Zhai Dayou is listed as the first author and Liu Yu as a corresponding author. 

The research study won financial support from the Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) and Yunnan Department of Science and Technology. 

To learn more about the research, please click the following link:

https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(18)31590-2