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SUBMITTER: Criswell KE
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7064331 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Criswell Katharine E KE Gillis J Andrew JA
eLife 20200224
The vertebral skeleton is a defining feature of vertebrate animals. However, the mode of vertebral segmentation varies considerably between major lineages. In tetrapods, adjacent somite halves recombine to form a single vertebra through the process of 'resegmentation'. In teleost fishes, there is considerable mixing between cells of the anterior and posterior somite halves, without clear resegmentation. To determine whether resegmentation is a tetrapod novelty, or an ancestral feature of jawed v ...[more]