Open AccessReply to ‘placoderms and the evolutionary origin of teeth’: Burrow et al. (2016)
Author(s) -
Martin Rücklin,
Philip C. J. Donoghue
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
biology letters
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.596
H-Index - 110
eISSN - 1744-957X
pISSN - 1744-9561
DOI - 10.1098/rsbl.2016.0526
Subject(s) - burrow , biology , biological evolution , evolutionary biology , ecology , zoology , genetics
Establishing the evolutionary origins of teeth is difficult not least since researchers disagree on whether or not the earliest jawed vertebrates, the extinct placoderms, possessed teeth. We recently showed that a gnathal plate from the acanthothoracid Romundina stellina comprises marginally added
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