This study was approved by the Animal Care and Use Committee of the Centre for Applied Aquatic Genomics at the Ocean University of China. Table 1 Primers used for qPCR analyses in this study. The ...

The inclusion of multiple chondrichthyan lineages was important in the inference of gnathostome-derived gene families. The selachians (true sharks) lost fewer gene families than Callorhinchus (144 vs.

The ontogenetic trajectory of a marginal jawbone of Lophosteus superbus (Late Silurian, 422 Million years old), the phylogenetically most basal stem osteichthyan, visualized by synchrotron ...