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SUBMITTER: Amemiya CT
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2840454 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Amemiya Chris T CT Powers Thomas P TP Prohaska Sonja J SJ Grimwood Jane J Schmutz Jeremy J Dickson Mark M Miyake Tsutomu T Schoenborn Michael A MA Myers Richard M RM Ruddle Francis H FH Stadler Peter F PF
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20100205 8
The living coelacanth is a lobe-finned fish that represents an early evolutionary departure from the lineage that led to land vertebrates, and is of extreme interest scientifically. It has changed very little in appearance from fossilized coelacanths of the Cretaceous (150 to 65 million years ago), and is often referred to as a "living fossil." An important general question is whether long-term stasis in morphological evolution is associated with stasis in genome evolution. To this end we have u ...[more]