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Heterochrony, modularity, and the functional evolution of the mechanosensory lateral line canal system of fishes

BACKGROUND: The canals of the mechanosensory lateral line system are components of the dermatocranium, and demonstrate phenotypic variation in bony fishes. Widened lateral line canals evolved convergently in a limited number of families of teleost fishes and it had been hypothesized that they evolve...

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Autores principales: Bird, Nathan C, Webb, Jacqueline F
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4066827/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24959342
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/2041-9139-5-21