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A shift in anterior–posterior positional information underlies the fin-to-limb evolution

The pectoral fins of ancestral fishes had multiple proximal elements connected to their pectoral girdles. During the fin-to-limb transition, anterior proximal elements were lost and only the most posterior one remained as the humerus. Thus, we hypothesised that an evolutionary alteration occurred in...

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Autores principales: Onimaru, Koh, Kuraku, Shigehiro, Takagi, Wataru, Hyodo, Susumu, Sharpe, James, Tanaka, Mikiko
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4538735/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26283004
http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.07048