New records of alligator gar, Atractosteus spatula (Actinopterygii: Lepisosteiformes: Lepisosteidae) from Bali and Java, Indonesia [PDF]
Acta Ichthyologica Et Piscatoria, 2020 Alligator gar, Atractosteus spatula (Lacepède, 1803), is native to North America, with introductions reported from many countries. In 2019, two specimens of A. spatula were captured in Indonesia, one in the Nyanyi Estuary, a mangrove center in
Veryl Hasan, R Adharyan Islamy
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Atractosteus spatula (Actinopterygii: Lepisosteiformes: Lepisosteidae): A deliberate aquarium trade introduction incidence in the Shatt al-Arab River, Basrah, Iraq [PDF]
Acta Ichthyologica Et Piscatoria, 2017 The first record of a single specimen of alligator gar, Atractosteus spatula (Lacepède, 1803), native to North America, is reported from the inland waters of Iraq.
Falah Mutlak, Abbas J Al-Faisal
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Ray-finned fishes (Actinopterygii) from the Upper Jurassic (Oxfordian) of the Atacama Desert, Northern Chile [PDF]
PeerJ, 2022 This contribution presents novel records of ray-finned fishes from the Oxfordian of Cerritos Bayos, northern Chile. This includes a Pachycormiformes diversity represented by macropredatory forms (aff. Hypsocormus sp.
Rodrigo A. Otero
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The Evolutionary History of The Orexin/Allatotropin GPCR Family: from Placozoa and Cnidaria to Vertebrata. [PDF]
Sci Rep, 2019 Peptidic messengers constitute a highly diversified group of intercellular messengers widely distributedin nature that regulate a great number of physiological processes in Metazoa.
Alzugaray ME +3 more
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Dietary live yeast (Debaryomyces hansenii) provides no advantages in tropical gar, Atractosteus tropicus (Actinopterygii: Lepisosteiformes: Lepisosteidae), juvenile aquaculture [PDF]
Acta Ichthyologica et Piscatoria, 2021 Tropical gar, Atractosteus tropicus Gill, 1863, is an ancient freshwater fish that is commercially cultivated in southern Mexico. Currently, there is a specific diet for its culture; however, the addition of probiotics has not been investigated.
Iris Adriana Hernández-López +10 more
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Getting to the heart of a good fossil. [PDF]
Elife, 2016 This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use and redistribution provided that the original author and source are credited.The discovery of perfectly preserved 113-119 million year
Long JA.
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Visual Gene Expression Reveals a cone-to-rod Developmental Progression in Deep-Sea Fishes. [PDF]
Mol Biol Evol, 2021 Vertebrates use cone cells in the retina for color vision and rod cells to see in dim light. Many deep-sea fishes have adapted to their environment to have only rod cells in the retina, while both rod and cone genes are still preserved in their genomes.
Lupše N +7 more
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Evolution of the facial musculature in basal ray-finned fishes [PDF]
Frontiers in Zoology, 2018 Background The facial musculature is a remarkable anatomical complex involved in vital activities of fishes, such as food capture and gill ventilation.
Aléssio Datovo, Pedro P Rizzato
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Phylogenetic interrelationships of ginglymodian fishes (Actinopterygii: Neopterygii). [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2012 The Ginglymodi is one of the most common, though poorly understood groups of neopterygians, which includes gars, macrosemiiforms, and "semionotiforms." In particular, the phylogenetic relationships between the widely distributed "semionotiforms," and ...
Adriana López-Arbarello
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Retention of fatty acyl desaturase 1 (fads1) in Elopomorpha and Cyclostomata provides novel insights into the evolution of long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acid biosynthesis in vertebrates. [PDF]
BMC Evol Biol, 2018 Background Provision of long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids (LC-PUFA) in vertebrates occurs through the diet or via endogenous production from C18 precursors through consecutive elongations and desaturations.
Lopes-Marques M +8 more
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