Heart fossilization is possible and informs the evolution of cardiac outflow tract in vertebrates

Heart fossilization is possible and informs the evolution of cardiac outflow tract in vertebrates

Elucidating cardiac evolution has been frustrated by lack of fossils. One celebrated enigma in cardiac evolution involves the transition from a cardiac outflow tract dominated by a multi-valved conus arteriosus in basal actinopterygians, to an outflow tract commanded by the non-valved, elastic, bulb...

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Main Authors: Lara Maldanis, Murilo Carvalho, Mariana Ramos Almeida, Francisco Idalécio Freitas, José Artur Ferreira Gomes de Andrade, Rafael Silva Nunes, Carlos Eduardo Rochitte, Ronei Jesus Poppi, Raul Oliveira Freitas, Fábio Rodrigues, Sandra Siljeström, Frederico Alves Lima, Douglas Galante, Ismar S Carvalho, Carlos Alberto Perez, Marcelo Rodrigues de Carvalho, Jefferson Bettini, Vincent Fernandez, José Xavier-Neto
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: eLife Sciences Publications Ltd 2016-04-01
Series:eLife
Subjects:
Cretaceous
cardiac
development
evolution
fossils
fishes
Online Access:https://elifesciences.org/articles/14698

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