The First Virtual Cranial Endocast of a Lungfish (Sarcopterygii: Dipnoi)
PLoS ONE, 2014 Lungfish, or dipnoans, have a history spanning over 400 million years and are the closest living sister taxon to the tetrapods. Most Devonian lungfish had heavily ossified endoskeletons, whereas most Mesozoic and Cenozoic lungfish had largely ...
Alice M Clement, Per E Ahlberg
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Lungfish Axial Muscle Function and the Vertebrate Water to Land Transition
PLoS ONE, 2014 The role of axial form and function during the vertebrate water to land transition is poorly understood, in part because patterns of axial movement lack morphological correlates.
Angela M Horner, Bruce C Jayne
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A detailed 3D MRI brain atlas of the African lungfish Protopterus annectens [PDF]
Scientific ReportsThe study of the brain by magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in evolutionary analyses is still in its incipient stage, however, it is particularly useful as it allows us to analyze detailed anatomical images and compare brains of rare or otherwise ...
Daniel Lozano +4 more
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PLoS ONE, 2022 We wanted to clone the glucocorticoid receptor (GR) from slender African lungfish (Protopterus dolloi) for comparison to the P. dolloi mineralocorticoid receptor (MR), which we had cloned and were characterizing, as well as for comparison to the GRs from
Yoshinao Katsu +5 more
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A single-cell atlas of West African lungfish respiratory system reveals evolutionary adaptations to terrestrialization [PDF]
Nature Communications, 2023 The six species of lungfish possess both lungs and gills and are the closest extant relatives of tetrapods. Here, we report a single-cell transcriptome atlas of the West African lungfish (Protopterus annectens).
Ruihua Zhang +23 more
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Frontiers in Marine Science, 2021 The evolutionary relationships of lungfish can provide crucial information on the transition from Sarcopterygii to tetrapods. Phylogenomics is necessary to explore accurate internal phylogenetic relationships among all lungfish species. In the context of
Linlin Zhao +2 more
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A new origin of the ‘modern’ lungfish dentition revealed by taxonomic overlap between Devonian and Carboniferous dipnoans [PDF]
PeerJLungfishes (Dipnoi, Sarcopterygii) initially radiated in the Early Devonian, and reached the apogee of their diversity during this period, especially with regard to their dentitions.
Amin El Fassi El Fehri +4 more
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Brain – Endocast Relationship in the Australian Lungfish, Neoceratodus forsteri, Elucidated from Tomographic Data (Sarcopterygii: Dipnoi) [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2015 Although the brains of the three extant lungfish genera have been previously described, the spatial relationship between the brain and the neurocranium has never before been fully described nor quantified.
Alice M Clement +2 more
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A new lungfish (Ceratodontoidei, Dipnoi) from the Early Jurassic of Chongqing, China [PDF]
Scientific ReportsDipnoi (lungfishes) are a group of air-breathing sarcopterygian fishes that survived over hundreds of millions of years and their crown members (Neoceratodus, Lepidosiren and Protopterus) are among the closest living relatives of the tetrapods. After the
Bo Luo +8 more
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Comparison of diverse mandibular mechanics during biting in Devonian lungfishes [PDF]
iScienceSummary: Fossil lungfish from the Late Devonian Gogo Formation, Australia, feature some of the most remarkable and specialized mandible morphologies in their 415-million-year history.
Joshua Bland +7 more
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