From Devo to Evo: patterning, fusion and evolution of the zebrafish terminal vertebra

Abstract Background With more than 30,000 species, teleosts comprise about half of today’s living vertebrates, enriched with a wide set of adaptations to all aquatic systems. Their evolution was marked by modifications of their tail, that involved major rearrangements of the metameric organization o...

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Main Authors: Nicolás Cumplido, Miguel L. Allende, Gloria Arratia
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2020-06-01
Series:Frontiers in Zoology
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12983-020-00364-y