The oldest articulated osteichthyan reveals mosaic gnathostome characters

Nature

Volumn 458, Issue 7237, 2009, Pages 469-474

  Zhu, Min ^a   Zhao, Wenjin ^a   Jia, Liantao ^a   Lu, Jing ^a,b   Qiao, Tuo ^a,b   Qu, Qingming ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY AND PALEOANTHROPOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; FISH; FOSSIL RECORD; SILURIAN; SKELETON; TAXONOMY;

ARTICLE; CHINA; CONTROLLED STUDY; FISH; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; OSTEICHTHYANS; PHYLOGENY; PLESIOMORPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; CHINA; FISHES; FOSSILS; GEOGRAPHY; PHYLOGENY; TIME FACTORS;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; YUNNAN;

GNATHOSTOMATA (VERTEBRATE); OSTEICHTHYES; TETRAPODA;

EID: 63649155968     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature07855     Document Type: Article

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