Published in Nature on July 01, 2010
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Fossil jawless fish from China foreshadows early jawed vertebrate anatomy. Nature (2011) 1.73
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Widespread iron-rich conditions in the mid-Proterozoic ocean. Nature (2011) 1.55
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A hot-vent gastropod with iron sulfide dermal sclerites. Science (2003) 1.16
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Hand to mouth in a neandertal: right-handedness in Regourdou 1. PLoS One (2012) 0.87
Towards a quantitative understanding of the late Neoproterozoic carbon cycle. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2011) 0.86
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A technique for creating critical-size defects in the metatarsus of sheep for use in investigation of healing of long-bone defects. Am J Vet Res (2004) 0.86
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