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Independent evolution of the specialized pharyngeal jaw apparatus in cichlid and labrid fishes

BACKGROUND: Fishes in the families Cichlidae and Labridae provide good probable examples of vertebrate adaptive radiations. Their spectacular trophic radiations have been widely assumed to be due to structural key innovation in pharyngeal jaw apparatus (PJA), but this idea has never been tested base...

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Autores principales: Mabuchi, Kohji, Miya, Masaki, Azuma, Yoichiro, Nishida, Mutsumi
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2007
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1797158/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17263894
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2148-7-10