The origin of conodonts and of vertebrate mineralized skeletons

Nature

Volumn 502, Issue 7472, 2013, Pages 546-549

  Murdock, Duncan J E ^a   Dong, Xi Ping ^b,c   Repetski, John E ^d   Marone, Federica ^e   Stampanoni, Marco ^e,f   Donoghue, Philip C J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c NANJING INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND PALAEONTOLOGY   (China)

^d U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^e PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANCESTRY; COMMON ANCESTRY; CONODONT; CONVERGENCE; ENAMEL; EVOLUTION; GENETIC DIFFERENTIATION; HOMOLOGY; MICROSTRUCTURE; SKELETON; VERTEBRATE; X-RAY;

ANATOMY; ARTICLE; CONODONT; CONVERGENT EVOLUTION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DERMIS; ENAMEL; EPITHELIUM; EUCONODONT; EVOLUTIONARY HOMOLOGY; JAW; MICROSCOPY; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; ONTOGENY; PARACONODONT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKELETON; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; SYNCHROTRON RADIATION; TOMOGRAPHY; TOOTH; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; FOSSILS; JAW; NEVADA; PHYLOGENY; SKELETON; SYNCHROTRONS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY; TOOTH; VERTEBRATES; WYOMING;

GNATHOSTOMATA (VERTEBRATE); ODONTODES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84886952423     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature12645     Document Type: Article

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