Major events in early vertebrate evolution : palaeontology, phylogeny, genetics and development /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: Systematics Association
Other Authors: Ahlberg, Per Erik, 1963-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Taylor & Francis, [2001]
Series:Systematics Association special volume ; no. 61.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Deuterostome phylogeny: the context for the origin and evolution of the vertebrates
  • Amphioxus and the evolutionary origin of the vertebrate neural crest and the midbrain/hindbrain boundary
  • The origin of the neural crest
  • The origin and early fossil history of the acustico-lateralis system, with remarks on the reality of the echinoderm-hemichordate clade
  • The Cambrian origin of vertebrates
  • Origin of a mineralized skeleton
  • The relationship of lampreys to hagfishes: a spectral analysis of ribosomal DNA sequences
  • Molecular evidence for the early history of living vertebrates
  • Vertebrate phylogeny: limits of inference of mitochondial genome and nuclear rDNA sequence data due to an adverse phylogenetic signal/noise ratio
  • The Ordovician radiation of vertebrates
  • Ostracoderms and the shaping of the gnathostome characters
  • Scenarios, selection and the ecology of early vertebrates
  • Placoderms and basal gnathostome apomorphies
  • The evolution of vertebrate dentitions: phylogenetic pattern and developmental models
  • Early sharks and primitive gnathostome interrelationships
  • A primitive chondrichthyan braincase from the Middle Devonian of Boliva
  • Interrelationships of basal osteichthyans
  • Dialipina and the characters of basal actinopterygians
  • Origin of the teleost tail: phylogenetic frameworks for developmental studies
  • Occipital structure and the posterior limit of the skull in actinopterygians
  • Lungfish paired fins
  • Is there a tetrapod developmental bauplan underlying limb evolution? Evidence from a teleost fish and from urodele and anuran amphibians
  • The otoccipital region: origin, ontogeny and the fish-tetrapod transition.