Major Events in Early Vertebrate Evolution, Vol. 61
A multi-author volume Major Events in Early Vertebrate Evolution examines the origin and early evolution of the backboned animals (vertebrates)-the group which comprises all fishes, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals, including ourselves. This volume draws together evidence from fossils, genes, and developmental biology (the study of how embryos grow and develop) to answer questions such as:\ *When did the first backboned animals appear?\ *How are the different groups of backboned...
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A multi-author volume Major Events in Early Vertebrate Evolution examines the origin and early evolution of the backboned animals (vertebrates)-the group which comprises all fishes, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals, including ourselves. This volume draws together evidence from fossils, genes, and developmental biology (the study of how embryos grow and develop) to answer questions such as:*When did the first backboned animals appear?*How are the different groups of backboned animals related to each other?*How did bones and teeth evolve?The authors are all experts of international standing in their respective fields, and present some of their own recent findings in conjunction with reviews of the latest work in this fast-moving and fascinating area of biology.
ContributorsAcknowledgementsIntroduction1Deuterostome phylogeny: the context for the origin and evolution of the vertebrates12Amphioxus and the evolutionary origin of the vertebrate neural crest and the midbrain/hindbrain boundary153The origin of the neural crest334The origin and early fossil history of the acustico-lateralis system, with remarks on the reality of the echinoderm-hemichordate clade405The Cambrian origin of vertebrates676Origin of a mineralized skeleton857The relationship of lampreys to hagfishes: a spectral analysis and ribosomal DNA sequences1068Molecular evidence for the early history of living vertebrates1199Vertebrate phylogeny: limits of inference of mitochondial genome and nuclear rDNA sequence data due to an adverse phylogenetic signal/noise ratio13510The Ordovician radiation of vertebrates15611Ostracoderms and the shaping of the gnathostome characters17212Scenarios, selection and the ecology of early vertebrates18713Placoderms and basal gnathostome apomorphies20914The evolution of vertebrate dentitions: phylogenetic pattern and developmental models22315Early sharks and primitive gnathostome interrelationships24116A primitive chondrichthyan braincase from the Middle Devonian of Bolivia26317Interrelationships of basal osteichtyans28918Dialipina and the characters of basal actinopterygians31519Origin of the teleost tail: phylogenetic frameworks for developmental studies33320Occipital structure and the posterior limit of the skull in actinopterygians35021Lungfish paired fins37022Is there a tetrapod developmental bauplan underlying limb evolution? Evidence from a teleost fish and from urodele and anuran amphibians37723The otoccipital region: origin, ontogeny and the fish-tetrapod transition392Index406Systematics Association Publications415
