Visual ecology of the Australian lungfish (
BMC Ecology, 2008 Background The transition from water to land was a key event in the evolution of vertebrates that occurred over a period of 15–20 million years towards the end of the Devonian. Tetrapods, including all land-living vertebrates, are thought to have evolved
Vorobyev Misha +4 more
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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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Mandibular musculature constrains brain–endocast disparity between sarcopterygians [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2020 The transition from water to land by the earliest tetrapods in the Devonian Period is seen as one of the greatest steps in evolution. However, little is understood concerning changes in brain morphology over this transition.
T. J. Challands +2 more
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Immunolocalization of Some Epidermal Proteins and Glycoproteins in the Growing Skin of the Australian Lungfish (Neoceratodus forsteri) [PDF]
Journal of Developmental Biology, 2023 Here we report the immunolocalization of mucin, nestin, elastin and three glycoproteins involved in tissue mineralization in small and large juveniles of Neoceratodus forsteri.
Lorenzo Alibardi
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Age structure of the Australian lungfish (Neoceratodus forsteri).
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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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
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Increased scalability and sequencing quality of an epigenetic age prediction assay. [PDF]
PLoS ONEEpigenetic ageing in a human context, has been used to better understand the relationship between age and factors such as lifestyle and genetics. In an ecological setting, it has been used to predict the age of individual animals for wildlife management.
Benjamin Mayne +6 more
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Development of the Pectoral Lobed Fin in the Australian Lungfish Neoceratodus forsteri
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2021 The evolutionary transition from paired fins to limbs involved the establishment of a set of limb muscles as an evolutionary novelty. In parallel, there was a change in the topography of the spinal nerves innervating appendicular muscles, so that ...
Tatsuya Hirasawa +6 more
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A new method for reconstructing brain morphology: applying the brain-neurocranial spatial relationship in an extant lungfish to a fossil endocast [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2016 Lungfish first appeared in the geological record over 410 million years ago and are the closest living group of fish to the tetrapods. Palaeoneurological investigations into the group show that unlike numerous other fishes—but more similar to those in ...
Alice M. Clement +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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