Major events in early vertebrate evolution
Subtitle: palaeontology, phylogeny, genetics and development
By: edited by Per Erik Ahlberg.
Contributors: Ahlberg, Per Erik, 1963-; Systematics Association.
Series: The Systematics Association special volume series -- 61.; Systematics Association special volume -- no. 61.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2001
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 418
Subjects: Vertebrates -- Evolution.; Vertébrés -- Évolution.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Deuterostome phylogeny: the context for the origin and evolution of the vertebrates / Henry Gee; title: Amphioxus and the evolutionary origin of the vertebrate neural crest and the midbrain/hindbrain boundary / Linda Z. Holland, Nicholas D. Holland; title: The origin of the neural crest / Peter W. H. Holland ... [et al.]; title: The origin and early fossil history of the acustico-lateralis system, with remarks on the reality of the echinoderm-hemichordate clade / Richard P.S. Jefferies; title: The Cambrian origin of vertebrates / M. Paul Smith, Ivan J. Sansom, Karen D. Cochrane; title: Origin of a mineralized skeleton / Philip C.J. Donoghue, Richard J. Aldridge; title: The relationship of lampreys to hagfishes: a spectral analysis and ribosomal DNA sequences / Jon Mallatt, Jack Sullivan, Christopher J. Winchell; title: Molecular evidence for the early history of living vertebrates / S. Blair Hedges; title: Vertebrate phylogeny: limits of inference of mitochondial genome and nuclear rDNA sequence data due to an adverse phylogenetic signal/noise ratio / Refael Zardoya, Axel Meyer; title: The Ordovician radiation of vertebrates / Ivan J. Sansom, Moya M. Smith, M. Paul Smith; title: Ostracoderms and the shaping of the gnathostome characters / Philippe Janvier; title: Scenarios, selection and the ecology of early vertebrates / Mark A. Purnell; title: Placoderms and basal gnathostome apomorphies / Daniel Goujet; title: The evolution of vertebrate dentitions: phylogenetic pattern and developmental models / Moya M. Smith, Mike I. Coates; title: Early sharks and primitive gnathostome interrelationships / Mike I. Coates, Sandy E.K. Sequeira; title: A primitive chondrichthyan braincase from the middle Devonian of Bolivia / John G. Maisey; title: Interrelationships of basal osteichtyans / Zhu Min, Hans-Peter Schultze; title: Dialipina and the characters of basal actinopterygians / Hans-Peter Schultze, Stephen L. Cumbaa; title: Origin of the teleost tail: phylogenetic frameworks for developmental studies / Brian D. Metscher, Per Erik Ahlberg; title: Occipital structure and the posterior limit of the skull in actinopterygians / W.E. Bemis, P.L. Forey; title: Lungfish paired fins / Jean Joss, Terry Longhurst; title: Is there a tetrapod developmental bauplan underlying limb evolution? Evidence from a teleost fish and from urodele and anuran amphibians / J.R. Hinchliffe, E.I. Vorobyeva, J. Geraudie; title: The otoccipital region: origin, ontogeny and the fish-tetrapod transition / J.A. Clack.