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Dr. Martin D. Brazeau

Faculty of Natural Sciences, Department of Life Sciences (Silwood Park)

Senior Lecturer
 
 
 
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+44 (0)20 7594 2254m.brazeau

 
 
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W3.1KennedySilwood Park

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Publications

Citation

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@article{Dearden:2019:10.1038/s41467-019-10032-3,
author = {Dearden, R and Stockey, C and Brazeau, M},
doi = {10.1038/s41467-019-10032-3},
journal = {Nature Communications},
pages = {1--7},
title = {The pharynx of the stem-chondrichthyan Ptomacanthus and the early evolution of the gnathostome gill skeleton},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-10032-3},
volume = {10},
year = {2019}
}
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TY  - JOUR
AB  - The gill apparatus of gnathostomes (jawed vertebrates) is fundamental to feeding and ventilation and a focal point of classic hypotheses on the origin of jaws and paired appendages. The gill skeletons of chondrichthyans (sharks, batoids, chimaeras) have often been assumed to reflect ancestral states. However, only a handful of early chondrichthyan gill skeletons are known and palaeontological work is increasingly challenging other pre-supposed shark-like aspects of ancestral gnathostomes. Here we use computed tomography scanning to image the three-dimensionally preserved branchial apparatus in Ptomacanthus, a 415 million year old stem-chondrichthyan. Ptomacanthus had an osteichthyan-like compact pharynx with a bony operculum helping constrain the origin of an elongate elasmobranch-like pharynx to the chondrichthyan stem-group, rather than it representing an ancestral condition of the crown-group. A mixture of chondrichthyan-like and plesiomorphic pharyngeal patterning in Ptomacanthus challenges the idea that the ancestral gnathostome pharynx conformed to a morphologically complete ancestral type.
AU  - Dearden,R
AU  - Stockey,C
AU  - Brazeau,M
DO  - 10.1038/s41467-019-10032-3
EP  - 7
PY  - 2019///
SN  - 2041-1723
SP  - 1
TI  - The pharynx of the stem-chondrichthyan Ptomacanthus and the early evolution of the gnathostome gill skeleton
T2  - Nature Communications
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-10032-3
UR  - https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-10032-3
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/68196
VL  - 10
ER  -
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