Acanthodes and shark-like conditions in the last common ancestor of modern gnathostomes

Nature

Volumn 486, Issue 7402, 2012, Pages 247-250

  Davis, Samuel P ^a   Finarelli, John A ^b   Coates, Michael I ^c  

^a 505 King Court ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANATOMY; CLADISTICS; DIVERGENCE; FISH; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; MATRIX; PALEOZOIC; PHYLOGENY; RECONSTRUCTION; TAXONOMY;

ACANTHODIAN; ANIMAL STRUCTURES; ARTICLE; CARTILAGINOUS FISH; EAR; FISH; GNATHOSTOME; JAW; LAST COMMON ANCESTOR; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHARK; SKULL;

ANIMALS; FISHES; FOSSILS; PHYLOGENY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SHARKS; SKULL;

EID: 84862280431     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature11080     Document Type: Article

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