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

ISBN-13: 9781578085309 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 388 str.

Rui Diogo

Opis

The book 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.

Spis treści

PrefaceAcknowledgementsList of Abbreviations1. Introduction and Aims2. Methodology and Material3. Phylogenetic Analysis3.1 Cladistic Analysis, Diagnosis for Clades Obtained, andComparison with Previous Hypotheses4. Comparative Anatomy, Higher-level Phylogeny andMacroevolution of Osteichthyans—A Discussion4.1 Brief Summary of the PhylogeneticResults Obtained in the Cladistic Analysis4.2 Comparative Anatomy, Homologies, andEvolution of Osteichthyan Cranial Muscles4.3 Cranial Muscles, Zebrafish, and EvolutionaryDevelopmental Biology4.4 Comparative Anatomy, Homologies and Evolution ofOsteichthyan Pectoral Muscles4.5 Origin, Homologies and Evolution ofthe Weberian Apparatus4.6 Myological versus Osteological Characters inPhylogenetic Reconstructions: A New InsightReferencesPlates 1-7Index

O autorze

Rui Diogo (Howard University College of Medicine, Washington DC, USA).