title: Palaeobiology: ecological revelations in Ediacaran reproduction.
abstract: The biology of Ediacaran organisms - the oldest fossils of large multicellular life - has been notoriously hard to decipher, as they show little obvious relation to extant life forms. Ecological analyses, rather than anatomy, yield new revelations about their reproduction.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemical and Physical Sciences, University of Toronto Mississauga, 3359 Mississauga Road, Mississauga, Ontario, L5L 1C6, Canada. Electronic address: marc.laflamme@utoronto.ca.
authors.forename: Marc
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Laflamme
authors.affiliation: Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Vanderbilt University, 5726 Stevenson Center; 7th floor, Nashville, TN 37240, USA.
authors.forename: Simon A F
authors.initials: SAF
authors.lastname: Darroch
mesh_terms: D059001:Aquatic Organisms / Q000502:physiology*; D005580:Fossils; D012100:Reproduction, Asexual