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Facts and fancies about early fossil chordates and vertebrates.
Review in Nature, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 37 papers.
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37 citing papers in PubMed.
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- Come together over me: Cells that form the dermatocranium and chondrocranium in mice.Anatomical record (Hoboken, N.J. : 2007) · 2025Article
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- Understanding vertebrate immunity through comparative immunology.Nature reviews. Immunology · 2025Review
- Finite element and microstructural analyses indicate that pteraspid heterostracan oral plate microstructure was adapted to a mechanical function.Palaeontology · 2024Article
- The somatic genome of Eptatretus okinoseanus reveals the adaptation to deep-sea oligotrophic environment.BMC genomics · 2024Article
- A long-headed Cambrian soft-bodied vertebrate from the American Great Basin region.Royal Society open science · 2024Article
- Colonization of the ocean floor by jawless vertebrates across three mass extinctions.BMC ecology and evolution · 2024Article
- The three-dimensionally articulated oral apparatus of a Devonian heterostracan sheds light on feeding in Palaeozoic jawless fishes.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2024Article
- The hagfish genome and the evolution of vertebrates.Nature · 2024Article
- Ultrastructure of the lamprey head mesoderm reveals evolution of the vertebrate head.iScience · 2023Article
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- Ancient vertebrate dermal armor evolved from trunk neural crest.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023Article
- Multivariate mapping of ontogeny, taphonomy and phylogeny to reconstruct problematic fossil taxa.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2023Article
- A dysmorphic mouse model reveals developmental interactions of chondrocranium and dermatocranium.eLife · 2022Article
- Evolution of behavioural control from chordates to primates.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2022Article
- The conundrum of pharyngeal teeth origin: the role of germ layers, pouches, and gill slits.Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society · 2022Review
- Full-Length Transcriptome Sequencing Reveals Tissue-Specific Gene Expression Profile of Mangrove ClamFrontiers in physiology · 2022Article
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Abstract
The interrelationships between major living vertebrate, and even chordate, groups are now reasonably well resolved thanks to a large amount of generally congruent data derived from molecular sequences, anatomy and physiology. But fossils provide unexpected combinations of characters that help us to understand how the anatomy of modern groups was progressively shaped over millions of years. The dawn of vertebrates is documented by fossils that are preserved as either soft-tissue imprints, or minute skeletal fragments, and it is sometimes difficult for palaeontologists to tell which of them are reliable vertebrate remains and which merely reflect our idea of an ancestral vertebrate.
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