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Polypteridae

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2010
2010
Reverse engineering nature : design principles for flexible protection inspired by ancient fish armor of Polypteridae
This thesis is about designing structures that combine the dual functions of mechanical protection and flexibility of motion. The… Expand
2009
2009
The mitochondrial phylogeny of an ancient lineage of ray-finned fishes (Polypteridae) with implications for the evolution of body elongation, pelvic fin loss, and craniofacial morphology in…
BackgroundThe family Polypteridae, commonly known as "bichirs", is a lineage that diverged early in the evolutionary history of… Expand
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2009
2009
A New Gyrodactylid (Monogenea) Genus on Gray Bichir, Polypterus senegalus (Polypteridae) from Senegal (West Africa)
Abstract Diplogyrodactylus martini n. g. et sp., a viviparous monogenean, is described from the gills of gray bichir Polypterus… Expand
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2008
Highly Cited
2008
Materials design principles of ancient fish armour.
Knowledge of the structure-property-function relationships of dermal scales of armoured fish could enable pathways to improved… Expand
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2007
2007
Karyotypic characterization and genomic organization of the 5S rDNA in Polypterus senegalus (Osteichthyes, Polypteridae)
Polypteridae (Cladistia) is a family of archaic fishes, confined to African freshwaters. On account of their primitiveness in… Expand
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2004
2004
Das geruchsorgan der Polypteridae (Pisces, Brachiopterygii)
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  • Zeitschrift für Morphologie der Tiere
  • 2004
    • Corpus ID: 7974359
The olfactory organ of the Polypteridae (Brachiopterygii) was studied histologically. It differs fundamentally from the olfactory… Expand
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2002
Highly Cited
2002
Architecture of the integument in lower teleostomes: Functional morphology and evolutionary implications
A bony ganoid squamation is the plesiomorphic type in actinopterygians. During evolution, it was replaced by weak and more… Expand
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1998
Highly Cited
1998
Weighted ancestral area analysis and a solution of the redundant distribution problem.
A new cladistic method for the estimation of ancestral areas is based on reversible parsimony in combination with a weighting… Expand
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1997
1997
New fossil Polypteridae from the Cenomanian of Sudan. An evidence of their high diversity in the early Late Cretaceous
L'etude de l'ichtyofaune du Cenomanien de la Formation Wadi Milk (Soudan) a permis la decouverte de quatorze especes de… Expand
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1987
Highly Cited
1987
On the origin of ganoine: histological and ultrastructural data on the experimental regeneration of the scales of Calamoichthys calabaricus (Osteichthyes, Brachyopterygii, Polypteridae).
In order to understand the process of ganoine formation on the ganoid scales, scale regeneration has been studied to overcome the… Expand
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