Morphological and molecular evidence for a stepwise evolutionary transition from teeth to baleen in mysticete whales

Systematic Biology

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 15-37

  Deméré, Thomas A ^a   McGowen, Michael R ^b,c   Berta, Annalisa ^b   Gatesy, John ^c  

^a SAN DIEGO NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM   (United States)

^b SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Ameloblastin (AMBN); Baleen; Enamelin (ENAM); Evolution; Filter feeding; Mysticeti; Whale

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; CETACEA; MYSTICETI;

CALCIUM BINDING PROTEIN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION; FOSSIL; GENETICS; HISTOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PALATE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TOOTH; VASCULARIZATION; WHALE;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CALCIUM-BINDING PROTEINS; EVOLUTION; FOSSILS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PALATE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TOOTH; WHALES;

EID: 47749147384     PISSN: 10635157     EISSN: 1076836X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10635150701884632     Document Type: Article

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