A Devonian tetrapod-like fish and the evolution of the tetrapod body plan

Nature

Volumn 440, Issue 7085, 2006, Pages 757-763

  Daeschler, Edward B ^a   Shubin, Neil H ^b   Jenkins Jr , Farish A ^c  

^a ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES OF DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; FISHERIES; MORPHOLOGY; OCEAN HABITATS;

EVOLUTIONARY CHANGES; FOSSIL; SARCOPTERYGIANS; TETRAPODS;

MARINE BIOLOGY;

BODY SHAPE; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; FISH; LIMB; MORPHOLOGY; TETRAPOD;

ANIMAL ANATOMY; ARTICLE; CANADA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVONIAN; EAR; EVOLUTION; FISH; FOSSIL; LIMB; MANDIBLE; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MORPHOLOGICAL TRAIT; NONHUMAN; PALATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WRIST;

CANADA; CANADIAN ARCTIC; NORTH AMERICA;

ANIMALIA; CROSSOPTERYGII; TETRAPODA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 33645750347     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature04639     Document Type: Article

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