Trunk exoskeleton in teleosts is mesodermal in origin

The vertebrate mineralized skeleton is known to have first emerged as an exoskeleton that extensively covered the fossil jawless fish. The evolutionary origin of this exoskeleton has long been attributed to the emergence of the neural crest, but experimental evaluation for this is still poor. Here w...

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Main Authors: Shimada, Atsuko, Kawanishi, Toru, Kaneko, Takuya, Yoshihara, Hiroki, Yano, Tohru, Inohaya, Keiji, Kinoshita, Masato, Kamei, Yasuhiro, Tamura, Koji, Takeda, Hiroyuki
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Nature Pub. Group 2013
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3615485/