End-Devonian extinction and a bottleneck in the early evolution of modern jawed vertebrates

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 107, Issue 22, 2010, Pages 10131-10135

  Sallan, Lauren Cole ^a   Coates, Michael I ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Gnathostome; Hangenberg; Macroevolution; Paleontology; Romer's gap

Indexed keywords

ACANTHODIAN; ACTINOPTERYGIAN; ARTICLE; BOTTLENECK POPULATION; CHONDRICHTHYAN; CLADISTICS; DEVONIAN; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION; FAUNA; FISH; GIVETIAN; NONHUMAN; PLACODERM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SARCOPTERYGIAN; SERPUKHOVIAN; SPECIES EXTINCTION; TETRAPOD; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; DATABASES, FACTUAL; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; FOSSILS; HISTORY, ANCIENT; MARINE BIOLOGY; MODELS, GENETIC; PHYLOGENY; TIME FACTORS; VERTEBRATES;

GNATHOSTOMATA (VERTEBRATE); PISCES; TETRAPODA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 77953455738     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0914000107     Document Type: Article

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