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Sarcopterygii

 
National Institutes of Health

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2014
2014
The First Virtual Cranial Endocast of a Lungfish (Sarcopterygii: Dipnoi)
Lungfish, or dipnoans, have a history spanning over 400 million years and are the closest living sister taxon to the tetrapods… (More)
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2014
2014
Distributional patterns of Mawsoniidae (Sarcopterygii: Actinistia).
Mawsoniidae are a fossil family of actinistian fish popularly known as coelacanths, which are found in continental and marine… (More)
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2013
2013
Coelacanth genomes reveal signatures for evolutionary transition from water to land.
Coelacanths are known as "living fossils," as they show remarkable morphological resemblance to the fossil record and belong to… (More)
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2012
2012
Identifying heterogeneity in rates of morphological evolution: discrete character change in the evolution of lungfish (Sarcopterygii; Dipnoi).
Quantifying rates of morphological evolution is important in many macroevolutionary studies, and critical when assessing possible… (More)
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2008
2008
The hyomandibulae of rhizodontids (Sarcopterygii, stem-tetrapoda).
Despite its important role in the study of the evolution of tetrapods, the hyomandibular bone (the homologue of the stapes in… (More)
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2007
2007
Fish fingers: digit homologues in sarcopterygian fish fins.
A defining feature of tetrapod evolutionary origins is the transition from fish fins to tetrapod limbs. A major change during… (More)
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2006
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2006
A distal enhancer and an ultraconserved exon are derived from a novel retroposon.
Hundreds of highly conserved distal cis-regulatory elements have been characterized so far in vertebrate genomes. Many thousands… (More)
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2005
2005
The mitochondrial genome of Indonesian coelacanth Latimeria menadoensis (Sarcopterygii: Coelacanthiformes) and divergence time estimation between the two coelacanths.
We determined the whole mitochondrial genome sequence for Indonesian coelacanth Latimeria menadoensis. The genome content and… (More)
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2002
2002
Dealing with saturation at the amino acid level: a case study based on anciently duplicated zebrafish genes.
The ray-finned fishes (Actinopterygii) seem to have two copies of many tetrapod (Sarcopterygii) genes. The origin of these… (More)
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1996
1996
The complete mitochondrial DNA sequence of the bichir (Polypterus ornatipinnis), a basal ray-finned fish: ancient establishment of the consensus vertebrate gene order.
The evolutionary position of bichirs is disputed, and they have been variously aligned with ray-finned fish (Actinopterygii) or… (More)
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