The origin of conodonts and of vertebrate mineralized skeletons
Conodonts are an extinct group of jawless vertebrates whose tooth-like elements are the earliest instance of a mineralized skeleton in the vertebrate lineage1,2, inspiring the ‘inside-out’ hypothesis that teeth evolved independently of the vertebrate dermal skeleton and before the origin of jaws3,4,...
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| Format: | Journal article |
| Jezik: | English |
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Nature Research
2013
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