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Jean Vannier is affiliated with Claude Bernard University Lyon 1 in France and focuses primarily on research within the field of Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their academic contributions are concentrated largely in the subfields of Paleontology, Oceanography, Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, and Atmospheric Science.

The scientist's research topics cover various aspects of paleontology and marine biology, with a notable emphasis on the paleontology and stratigraphy of fossils, marine biology and ecology research, and marine and coastal plant biology. They have also contributed work related to evolution and paleontology studies, paleontology and evolutionary biology, geology and paleoclimatology research, and marine invertebrate physiology and ecology.

Jean Vannier's frequent coauthors include:

  • Jian Han
  • Deng Wang
  • Xiaoguang Yang
  • Qiang Ou
  • Cédric Aria

Their recent publications illustrate a range of topics connected to early animal life and Cambrian fossils. Noteworthy papers include:

  • Evolutionary trade-off in reproduction of Cambrian arthropods, 2020, Science Advances
  • Muscle systems and motility of early animals highlighted by cnidarians from the basal Cambrian, 2022, eLife
  • An intermediate type of medusa from the early Cambrian Kuanchuanpu Formation, South China, 2020, Palaeontology
  • Cuticular reticulation replicates the pattern of epidermal cells in lowermost Cambrian scalidophoran worms, 2020, Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Tube-dwelling in early animals exemplified by Cambrian scalidophoran worms, 2021, BMC Biology

Jean Vannier frequently publishes in a selection of scientific journals recognizable for their focus on life sciences and paleontology. These venues include:

  • Science Advances
  • eLife
  • BMC Biology
  • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Scientific Reports

Best Publications

  • Priapulid worms: Pioneer horizontal burrowers at the Precambrian-Cambrian boundary

    Jean Vannier;Ivan Calandra;Ivan Calandra;Christian Gaillard;Anna Żylińska

  • Early Cambrian Food Chain: New Evidence from Fossil Aggregates in the Maotianshan Shale Biota, SW China

    Jean Vannier;Junyuan Chen

  • Gut contents as direct indicators for trophic relationships in the Cambrian marine ecosystem

    Jean Vannier

  • Early Cambrian origin of modern food webs: evidence from predator arrow worms

    Jean Vannier;M. Steiner;Elodie Renvoisé;S.-X. Hu

  • Sophisticated digestive systems in early arthropods

    Jean Vannier;Jianni Liu;Rudy Lerosey-Aubril;Jakob Vinther

  • The Early Cambrian colonization of pelagic niches exemplified by Isoxys (Arthropoda)

    Jean Vannier;Jun-Yuan Chen

  • Anatomy and lifestyle of Kunmingella (Arthropoda, Bradoriida) from the Chengjiang fossil Lagerstätte (lower Cambrian; Southwest China)

    Degan Shu;Jean Vannier;Huilin Luo;Ling Chen

  • Early Cambrian sipunculan worms from southwest China.

    Di-Ying Huang;Jun-Yuan Chen;Jean Vannier;J. I. Saiz Salinas

  • Feeding in myodocopid ostracods : functional morphology and laboratory observations from videos

    J. Vannier;K. Abe;K. Ikuta

  • The composition and palaeogeographical significance of the Ordovician ostracode faunas of southern Britain, Baltoscandia, and Ibero-Armorica

    Jean M C Vannier;David J Siveter;Roger E L Schallreuter

  • Silurian Myodocopes: Pioneer pelagic ostracods and the chronology of an ecological shift

    David J. Siveter;Jean M. C. Vannier;Douglas Palmer

  • Digestive system and feeding mode in Cambrian naraoiid arthropods

    Jean Vannier;Jun-Yuan Chen

  • The earliest ostracods: the geological evidence

    Mark Williams;David J. Siveter;María José Salas;Jean Vannier

  • The Lower Ordovician Fezouata Konservat-Lagerstätte from Morocco: Age, environment and evolutionary perspectives

    Emmanuel L.O. Martin;Bernard Pittet;Juan-Carlos Gutiérrez-Marco;Jean Vannier

  • Silurian field excursions-prague Basin (Barrandian), bohemia

    Jean Vannier

  • Anatomy and lifestyles of Early Cambrian priapulid worms exemplified by Corynetis and Anningvermis from the Maotianshan Shale (SW China)

    Di-Ying Huang;Jean Vannier;Jun-Yuan Chen

  • Recent Priapulidae and their Early Cambrian ancestors: comparisons and evolutionary significance

    Diying Huang;Diying Huang;Jean Vannier;JunYuan Chen

  • Spinicaudatans and ostracods (Crustacea) from the Montceau Lagerstätte (Late Carboniferous, France): morphology and palaeoenvironmental significance

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  • LEPERDITICOPID ARTHROPODS (ORDOVICIAN-LATE DEVONIAN): FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY AND ECOLOGICAL RANGE

    Jean Vannier;Shang Qi Wang;Michel Coen

  • Functional morphology and behavior of Vargula hilgendorfii (Ostracoda : Myodocopida) from Japan, and discussion of its crustacean ectoparasites : preliminary results from video recordings

    Jean Vannier;Katsumi Abe

  • Arthropod visual predators in the early pelagic ecosystem: evidence from the Burgess Shale and Chengjiang biotas

    J. Vannier;D.C. García-Bellido;S.-X. Hu;A.-L. Chen

  • Tuzoia: morphology and lifestyle of a large bivalved arthropod of the Cambrian seas

    Jean Vannier;Jean-Bernard Caron;Jin-Liang Yuan;Derek E. G. Briggs

Frequent Co-Authors

David J. Siveter
David J. Siveter University of Leicester
Mark Williams
Mark Williams University of Leicester
Jean-Bernard Caron
Jean-Bernard Caron University of Toronto
Tsuyoshi Komiya
Tsuyoshi Komiya University of Tokyo
Jian Han
Jian Han Northwest University
Bernard Pittet
Bernard Pittet École Normale Supérieure de Lyon
Thomas Servais
Thomas Servais University of Lille
Leonid E. Popov
Leonid E. Popov Cardiff University
Kentaro Uesugi
Kentaro Uesugi Stanford University
Derek E. G. Briggs
Derek E. G. Briggs Yale University

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