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Visual pigments in a living fossil, the Australian lungfish
BMC Evolutionary Biology, 2007 Background One of the greatest challenges facing the early land vertebrates was the need to effectively interpret a terrestrial environment. Interpretation was based on ocular adaptations evolved for an aquatic environment millions of years earlier.
Davies Wayne L +3 more
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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
Anne Kemp
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Frontiers in Immunology, 2018 Animal mucosal barriers constantly interact with the external environment, and this interaction is markedly different in aquatic and terrestrial environments.
Ryan D. Heimroth +2 more
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A Morphological and Histological Investigation of Imperfect Lungfish Fin Regeneration
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2021 Regeneration, the replacement of body parts in a living animal, has excited scientists for centuries and our knowledge of vertebrate appendage regeneration has increased significantly over the past decades.
Vivien Bothe +3 more
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Gnathostome Phylogenomics Utilizing Lungfish EST Sequences [PDF]
Molecular Biology and Evolution, 2008 The relationship between the Chondrichthyes (cartilaginous fishes), the Actinopterygii (ray-finned fishes), and the piscine Sarcopterygii (lobe-finned fishes) and how the Tetrapoda (four-limbed terrestrial vertebrates) are related to these has been a contentious issue for more than a century.
Björn M, Hallström, Axel, Janke
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Identifying heterogeneity in rates of morphological evolution:Discrete character change in the evolution of lungfish (Sarcopterygii; Dipnoi) [PDF]
, 2011 Quantifying rates of morphological evolution is important in many macroevolutionary studies, and critical when assessing possible adaptive radiations and episodes of punctuated equilibrium in the fossil record.
Brusatte, S.L. +2 more
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Aestivation induces widespread transcriptional changes in the African lungfish
Frontiers in Genetics, 2023 Aestivation is a special ability possessed by some animals to cope with hot and dry environments utilizing dormancy. At a macroscopic level, dormant animals stop moving and eating.
Yuhan Niu +11 more
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BMC Research Notes, 2011 Background Since the discovery of the "living fossil" in 1938, the coelacanth (Latimeria chalumnae) has generally been considered to be the closest living relative of the land vertebrates, and this is still the prevailing opinion in most general biology ...
Gras Robin, Shan Yunfeng
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A diverse Late Cretaceous vertebrate tracksite from the Winton Formation of Queensland, Australia [PDF]
PeerJ, 2021 The Upper Cretaceous ‘upper’ Winton Formation of Queensland, Australia is world famous for hosting Dinosaur Stampede National Monument at Lark Quarry Conservation Park, a somewhat controversial tracksite that preserves thousands of tridactyl dinosaur ...
Stephen F. Poropat +7 more
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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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