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Diversity, 2023 Australia has an excellent fossil record of lungfish that begins in the Devonian and includes many species in Tertiary and Quaternary deposits. The extant Australian lungfish, Neoceratodus forsteri, occurs in Pliocene deposits, but is now restricted to a
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Tell Us a Story Granddad: Age and Origin of an Iconic Australian Lungfish
Frontiers in Environmental Science, 2022 The modern discovery of the Australian lungfish (Neoceratodus forsteri) by European settlers in 1870 was considered one of the most important events in natural history by leading international scientists and naturalists of that time.
Benjamin Mayne +2 more
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Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part A: Molecular & Integrative Physiology, 2002 Bradykinin (BK) isolated from plasma of the African lungfish, Protopterus annectens, contains four amino acid substitutions compared with BK from mammals (Arg1 → Tyr, Pro2 → Gly, Pro7 → Ala, Phe8 → Pro).
Masini, Maria A. +7 more
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Morphometric analysis of lungfish endocasts elucidates early dipnoan palaeoneurological evolution
eLife, 2022 The lobe-finned fish, lungfish (Dipnoi, Sarcoptergii), have persisted for ~400 million years from the Devonian Period to present day. The evolution of their dermal skull and dentition is relatively well understood, but this is not the case for the ...
Alice M Clement +6 more
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The rapid evolution of lungfish durophagy
Nature Communications, 2022 It is unclear how Lungfishes evolved durophagy, the consumption of hard prey, despite being the longest lineage of vertebrates with this feeding mechanism. Here, the authors describe exceptionally preserved fossils of Youngolepis from the Early Devonian,
Xindong Cui +4 more
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Age structure of the Australian lungfish (Neoceratodus forsteri). [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2019 The Australian lungfish has been studied for more than a century without any knowledge of the longevity of the species. Traditional methods for ageing fish, such as analysis of otolith (ear stone) rings is complicated in that lungfish otoliths differ ...
Stewart J Fallon +10 more
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FishesThe Australian lungfish, Neoceratodus forsteri, is one of the world’s oldest vertebrate lineages, with a slow life-history and threatened status, requiring immediate conservation efforts.
Charles R. Todd +13 more
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Beyond mammals: the evolution of chewing and other forms of oropharyngeal food processing in vertebrates. [PDF]
Biol Rev Camb Philos SocABSTRACT Oropharyngeal food processing exhibits a remarkable diversity among vertebrates, reflecting the evolution of specialised ‘processing centres’ associated with the mandibular, hyoid, and branchial arches. Although studies have detailed various food‐processing strategies and mechanisms across vertebrates, a coherent and comprehensive terminology ...
Schwarz D +6 more
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Relaxation of Natural Selection in the Evolution of the Giant Lungfish Genomes. [PDF]
Mol Biol Evol, 2023 Nonadaptive hypotheses on the evolution of eukaryotic genome size predict an expansion when the process of purifying selection becomes weak. Accordingly, species with huge genomes, such as lungfish, are expected to show a genome-wide relaxation signature
Fuselli S +16 more
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Living animals for comparison in studies of Mesozoic fossils. [PDF]
Research & Knowledge, 2017 Lungfish are timeless, starting in the Devonian and still found today. Unfortunately this does not mean that biologists and palaeontologists agree about the functional anatomies of dipnoans.
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