Alavya Dhungana's Outputs (4)

Omnidens appendages and the origin of radiodont mouthparts (2024)
Journal Article
Li, W., Yang, J., Yang, X., Dhungana, A., Wang, Y., Zhang, X., & Smith, M. (2024). Omnidens appendages and the origin of radiodont mouthparts. Papers in Palaeontology, 10(6), Article e1600. https://doi.org/10.1002/spp2.1600

The sophisticated, modular and adaptable body plan of arthropods underpins their dominance in marine invertebrate communities. The origin of this body plan from legged lobopodian worms can be inferred from Cambrian Konservat-Lagerstätten, but our un... Read More about Omnidens appendages and the origin of radiodont mouthparts.

Organ systems of a Cambrian euarthropod larva (2024)
Journal Article
Smith, M. R., Long, E. J., Dhungana, A., Dobson, K. J., Yang, J., & Zhang, X. (2024). Organ systems of a Cambrian euarthropod larva. Nature, 633, 120-126. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-07756-8

The Cambrian radiation of euarthropods can be attributed to an adaptable body plan. Sophisticated brains and specialized feeding appendages, which are elaborations of serially repeated organ systems and jointed appendages, underpin the dominance of E... Read More about Organ systems of a Cambrian euarthropod larva.

Facilitating corals in an early Silurian deep‐water assemblage (2021)
Journal Article
Dhungana, A., & Mitchell, E. G. (2021). Facilitating corals in an early Silurian deep‐water assemblage. Palaeontology, 64(3), 359-370. https://doi.org/10.1111/pala.12527

Corals are powerful ecosystem engineers and can form reef communities with extraordinary biodiversity through time. Understanding the processes underlying the spatial distribution of corals allows us to identify the key biological and physical proces... Read More about Facilitating corals in an early Silurian deep‐water assemblage.

The influence of environmental setting on the community ecology of Ediacaran organisms (2020)
Journal Article
Mitchell, E. G., Bobkov, N., Bykova, N., Dhungana, A., Kolesnikov, A. V., Hogarth, I. R., Liu, A. G., Mustill, T. M., Sozonov, N., Rogov, V. I., Xiao, S., & Grazhdankin, D. V. (2020). The influence of environmental setting on the community ecology of Ediacaran organisms. Interface Focus, 10(4), Article 20190109. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsfs.2019.0109

The broad-scale environment plays a substantial role in shaping modern marine ecosystems, but the degree to which palaeocommunities were influenced by their environment is unclear. To investigate how broad-scale environment influenced the community e... Read More about The influence of environmental setting on the community ecology of Ediacaran organisms.