Evidence map›Paper›PMID 28616182›Full record

ArticleEcology and evolution2017

Terrestrial capture of prey by the reedfish, a model species for stem tetrapods.

Sam Van Wassenbergh, Christoffel Bonte, Krijn B Michel

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Article in Ecology and evolution, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Body Size Awareness and Modular Self-Representation in Reedfish (Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2025
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  3. The feeding system ofProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2021
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Sam Van WassenberghDepartment of Biology University of Antwerp Antwerp Belgium.
Christoffel BonteDepartment of Biology University of Antwerp Antwerp Belgium.
Krijn B MichelDepartment of Biology University of Antwerp Antwerp Belgium.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Due to morphological resemblance, polypterid fishes are used as extant analogues of Late Devonian lobe-finned sarcopterygians to identify the features that allowed the evolution of a terrestrial lifestyle in early tetrapods. Previous studies using polypterids showed how terrestrial locomotion capacity can develop, and how air ventilation for breathing was possible in extinct tetrapodomorphs. Interestingly, one polypterid species, the reedfish

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feedingpolypteridaeprey‐captureterrestrialization

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PMID28616182
PMCPMC5468123

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