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Academic & Professional Books  Evolutionary Biology  Evolution

The Origin of Higher Clades Osteology, Myology, Phylogeny and Evolution of Bony Fishes and the Rise of Tetrapods

By: Rui Diogo(Author)
367 pages, illustrations, tables
Publisher: CRC Press
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The Origin of Higher Clades provides insight on the osteology, myology, phylogeny and evolution of Osteichthyes. It not only provides an extensive cladistic analysis of osteichthyan higher-level inter-relationships based on a phylogenetic comparison of 356 characters in 80 extant and fossil terminal taxa representing all major groups of Osteichthyes, but also analyses various terminal taxa and osteological characters. And also provides a general discussion on issues such as the comparative anatomy, homologies and evolution of osteichthyan cranial and pectoral muscles, the development of zebrafish cephalic muscles and the implications for evolutionary developmental studies, the origin homologies and evolution of one of the most peculiar and enigmatic structural complexes of osteichthyans, the Weberian apparatus, and the use of myological versus osteological characters in phylogenetic reconstructions. The work may stimulate, and pave the way for, future studies on the comparative anatomy, functional morphology, phylogeny and evolution of osteichthyans and of vertebrates in general.

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- Introduction and Aims
- Methodology and Material
- Phylogenetic Analysis
- Cladistic Analysis, Diagnosis for Clades Obtained, and Comparison with Previous Hypotheses
- Comparative Anatomy, Higher-Level Phylogeny and Macroevolution of Osteichthyans - A Discussion
- Brief Summary of the Phylogenetic Results Obtained in the Cladistic Analysis
- Comparative Anatomy, Homologies, and Evolution of Osteichthyan Cranial Muscles
- Cranial Muscles, Zebrafish, and Evolutionary Developmental Biology
- Comparative Anatomy, Homologies and Evolution of Osteichthyan Pectoral Muscles
- Origin, Homologies and Evolution of the Weberian Apparatus
- Myological versus Osteological Characters in Phylogenetic Reconstructions: A New Insight
- References

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By: Rui Diogo(Author)
367 pages, illustrations, tables
Publisher: CRC Press
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