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RT @scottpegan: @Wynterloren @Sternarchella @AdrienneSCorrea The leading hypothesis is that pharyngeal jaws evolved from modified gill arch…
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@Wynterloren @Sternarchella @AdrienneSCorrea The leading hypothesis is that pharyngeal jaws evolved from modified gill arches, the bones that support the gills in modern fishes. And, based on a recent phylogenetic study, this amazing structure evolved mult
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RT @fishphylogeny: @LPHernandezGW Presumably, they are using it effectively as a single fused fifth ceratobranchial as in other pharyngogna…
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RT @fishphylogeny: @LPHernandezGW Presumably, they are using it effectively as a single fused fifth ceratobranchial as in other pharyngogna…
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RT @fishphylogeny: @LPHernandezGW Presumably, they are using it effectively as a single fused fifth ceratobranchial as in other pharyngogna…
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@LPHernandezGW Presumably, they are using it effectively as a single fused fifth ceratobranchial as in other pharyngognathous fishes. In our 2012 paper (https://t.co/qQrGhbqIUu), we speculated that it is working in a mode similar to the unfused ceratobran
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Convict gobies closely-related to cichlids! http://t.co/Ns9QzlTk #cichlid