Fish fingers: Digit homologues in Sarcopterygian fish fins

Journal of Experimental Zoology Part B: Molecular and Developmental Evolution

Volumn 308, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 757-768

  Johanson, Zerina ^a   Joss, Jean ^b   Boisvert, Catherine A ^c   Ericsson, Rolf ^b   Sutija, Margareta ^d   Ahlberg, Per E ^c  

^a DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^b MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d HUBRECHT INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; FISH; FORELIMB; FOSSIL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HISTOLOGY; PHYLOGENY;

ANIMALS; FISHES; FORELIMB; FOSSILS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; PHYLOGENY;

NEOCERATODUS; OSTEICHTHYES; SARCOPTERYGII; TETRAPODA;

EID: 36349037013     PISSN: 15525007     EISSN: 15525015     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jez.b.21197     Document Type: Article

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