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The origin and early phylogenetic history of jawed vertebrates
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Fossils of early gnathostomes (or jawed vertebrates) have been the focus of study for nearly two centuries. They yield key clues about the evolutionary assembly of the group's common body plan, as well the divergence of the two living gnathostome lineages: the cartilaginous and bony vertebrates. A series of remarkable new palaeontological discoveries, analytical advances and innovative reinterpretations of existing fossil archives have fundamentally altered a decades-old consensus on the relationships of extinct gnathostomes, delivering a new evolutionary framework for exploring major questions that remain unanswered, including the origin of jaws.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Brazeau, M. D., & Friedman, M.
- Affiliations
- Imperial College London (GB)
- University of Oxford (GB)
- Corresponding author
- Brazeau, Martin D.
- Friedman, Matt
- Venue
- Nature
- Published
- 2015-04-22
- Volume
- 520
- Issue
- 7548
- Pages
- 490-497
- ISSN
- 0028-0836 (ISSN-L)
- 1476-4687
- PMC
- PMC4648279
- OpenAlex
- W2030900050
- Cited by
- 227
- References
- 90
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 2.14
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Locations
- Nature (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Paleontology › Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology
- Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Paleontology › Evolution and Paleontology Studies
- Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Paleontology › Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils
- Keywords
- jawed vertebrates, gnathostomes, phylogenetic relationships, fossil vertebrates, vertebrate evolution, body plan evolution
- MeSH terms
- Animals, Fossils, Jaw, Phylogeny, Vertebrates
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