Major events in early vertebrate evolution : palaeontology, phylogeny, genetics and development /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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London ; New York :
Taylor & Francis,
[2001]
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| Series: | Systematics Association special volume ;
no. 61. |
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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.