Revisiting the origin of the vertebrate Hox14 by including its relict sarcopterygian members. by Feiner, N, Ericsson, R, Meyer, A, Kuraku, S

“…In this study we performed a PCR-based search of Hox14 members from diverse vertebrates, and identified one in the Australian lungfish, Neoceratodus forsteri. Based on a molecular phylogenetic analysis, this gene was designated NfHoxA14. …”

A diverse Late Cretaceous vertebrate tracksite from the Winton Formation of Queensland, Australia by Stephen F. Poropat, Matt A. White, Tim Ziegler, Adele H. Pentland, Samantha L. Rigby, Ruairidh J. Duncan, Trish Sloan, David A. Elliott

“…The Snake Creek Tracksite reconciles the sauropod-, crocodyliform-, turtle-, and lungfish-dominated body fossil record of the ‘upper’ Winton Formation with its heretofore ornithopod- and theropod-dominated ichnofossil record.…”
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New locality for Lepidosiren paradoxa Fitzinger, 1837 (Dipnoi: Lepidosirenidae) in Argentina by Evelyn Vallone

“…In this study has document a new locality and thus a southern extension of the distribution of the lungfish Lepidosiren paradoxa to the coast of the Entre Rios Province in the lower Paraná River. …”
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On causal roles and selected effects: our genome is mostly junk by W. Ford Doolittle, Tyler D. P. Brunet

“…Comparisons to vertebrates with much larger and smaller genomes (the lungfish and the pufferfish) strongly align with such a conclusion, as they have done for the last half-century.…”
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Diversity and repertoire of IgW and IgM <it>VH </it>families in the newborn nurse shark by Dooley Helen, Lohr Rebecca L, Rumfelt Lynn L, Flajnik Martin F

“…IgW is present in the lungfish, a bony fish sharing a common ancestor with sharks 460 million years ago, implying that the IgW <it>VH </it>family is as old as the IgM <it>VH </it>family. …”
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Avian IgY antibodies: characteristics and applications in immunodiagnostic by Lívia Silveira Munhoz, Gilberto D'Ávila Vargas, Geferson Fischer, Marcelo de Lima, Paulo Augusto Esteves, Silvia de Oliveira Hübner

“…Immunoglobulin Y (IgY) is the major antibody isotype in birds, reptiles, amphibia, and lungfish, playing a similar biological role as mammal IgG. …”
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Lympho-Hematopoietic Microenvironments and Fish Immune System by Agustín G. Zapata

“…In the last 50 years information on the fish immune system has increased importantly, particularly that on species of marked commercial interest (i.e., salmonids, cods, catfish, sea breams), that occupy a key position in the vertebrate phylogenetical tree (i.e., Agnatha, Chondrichtyes, lungfish) or represent consolidated experimental models, such as zebrafish or medaka. …”
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New Data on Nephron Microanatomy and Ultrastructure of Senegal Bichir (<i>Polypterus senegalus</i>) by Ekaterina Aleksandrovna Flerova, Evgeniy Georgievich Evdokimov

“…The outer diameter of the tubules, the height of the epitheliocytes, the presence of two types of epithelial cells of the intermediate and distal tubules of the corresponding ultrastructure, and a large area of nephrogenic tissue are progressive features of the modern population of <i>P. senegalus</i>, associated with adaptation to air respiration and periodic terrestrial migrations, which were formed at the early stages of evolution of <i>P. senegalus</i> convergently with lungfish and amphibians.…”
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Rise of the earliest tetrapods: an early Devonian origin from marine environment. by David George, Alain Blieck

“…The molecular data also strongly supports lungfish as tetrapod's closest living relative.…”
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The cranial endocast of the Upper Devonian dipnoan ‘Chirodipterus’ australis by Struan A.C. Henderson, Tom J. Challands

“…One of the first endocasts of a dipnoan (lungfish) to be realised was that of the Upper Devonian taxon Chirodipterus australis. …”
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The African coelacanth genome provides insights into tetrapod evolution. by Amemiya, C, Alföldi, J, Lee, A, Fan, S, Philippe, H, Maccallum, I, Braasch, I, Manousaki, T, Schneider, I, Rohner, N, Organ, C, Chalopin, D, Smith, J, Robinson, M, Dorrington, R, Gerdol, M, Aken, B, Biscotti, M, Barucca, M, Baurain, D, Berlin, A, Blatch, G, Buonocore, F, Burmester, T, Campbell, MS

“…Through a phylogenomic analysis, we conclude that the lungfish, and not the coelacanth, is the closest living relative of tetrapods. …”

A primitive actinopterygian braincase from the Tournaisian of Nova Scotia by Conrad D. Wilson, Jason D. Pardo, Jason S.  Anderson

“…With a high lineage survivorship in tetrapods and lungfish across the Devonian–Carboniferous boundary and high vertebrate diversity at Tournaisian localities, this hints at a more gradual turnover between Devonian and Carboniferous vertebrate faunas.…”
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The role of the nervous system in fish evolution by Michael H Hofmann

“…In basal ray finned fishes, lungfish, amphibia and elasmobranchs, the olfactory bulb is relatively large and the ratio of the olfactory bulb and telencephalon large as well. …”
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Rhythm Pattern of Sole through Electrification of the Human Body When Walking by Kiyoaki TAKIGUCHI, Takayuki WADA, Shigeki TOHYAMA

“…In particular, the soles that contact the terrain surface perform flexible movements similar to the movement of the fins of a lungfish, which is considered to be the predecessor of land animals. …”
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Uncovering a 500 million year old history and evidence of pseudogenization for TLR15 by Fabiana Neves, Fabiana Neves, Antonio Muñoz-Mérida, Antonio Muñoz-Mérida, Antonio Muñoz-Mérida, André M. Machado, André M. Machado, Tereza Almeida, Tereza Almeida, Arnaud Gaigher, Arnaud Gaigher, Arnaud Gaigher, Arnaud Gaigher, Pedro J. Esteves, Pedro J. Esteves, Pedro J. Esteves, Pedro J. Esteves, L. Filipe C. Castro, L. Filipe C. Castro, Ana Veríssimo, Ana Veríssimo

“…Additionally, TLR15 has low expression levels in holocephalans when compared with other TLR genes. In turn, lungfish also have long TLR15 protein sequences but the protein structure is not compromised. …”
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The timing of Timezyme diversification in vertebrates. by Damien Cazaméa-Catalan, Laurence Besseau, Jack Falcón, Elodie Magnanou

“…We highlight a gene secondary loss of the AANAT2 in the Sarcopterygii, revealing for the first time that the AAANAT1/2 duplication occurred before the divergence between Actinopterygii (bony fish) and Sarcopterygii (tetrapods, lobe-finned fish, and lungfish). We hypothesize the teleost-specific whole genome duplication (WDG) generated the appearance of the AANAT1a/1b and the AANAT2/2'paralogs, the 2' isoform being rapidly lost in the teleost common ancestor (ray-finned fish). …”
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SkateBase, an elasmobranch genome project and collection of molecular resources for chondrichthyan fishes [v1; ref status: indexed, http://f1000r.es/445] by Jennifer Wyffels, Benjamin L. King, James Vincent, Chuming Chen, Cathy H. Wu, Shawn W. Polson

“…These data are widely available for many sarcopterygii (coelacanth, lungfish and tetrapods) and actinoptergii (ray-finned fish including teleosts) taxa, but limited for chondrichthyan fishes.  …”
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A transcriptomic reevaluation of the accessory olfactory organ in Bichir (Polypterus senegalus) by Atsuhiro Sakuma, Zicong Zhang, Eri Suzuki, Tatsuki Nagasawa, Masato Nikaido

“…However, recent studies have identified a primordial VNO in lungfish, implying that the origin of the VNO was earlier than traditionally expected. …”
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Phylogenomic analyses support the position of turtles as the sister group of birds and crocodiles (Archosauria) by Chiari Ylenia, Cahais Vincent, Galtier Nicolas, Delsuc Frédéric

“…</p> <p>Results</p> <p>In this study, we used next-generation sequencing to obtain seven new transcriptomes from the blood, liver, or jaws of four turtles, a caiman, a lizard, and a lungfish. We used a phylogenomic dataset based on 248 nuclear genes (187,026 nucleotide sites) for 16 vertebrate taxa to resolve the origins of turtles. …”
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Basal jawed vertebrate phylogeny inferred from multiple nuclear DNA-coded genes by Ishida Osamu, Sakurai Hiroshi, Kuraku Shigehiro, Katoh Kazutaka, Kikugawa Kanae, Iwabe Naoyuki, Miyata Takashi

“…It also remains possible that tetrapods are more closely related to ray-finned fishes than to lungfishes.</p>…”
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