Endoskeleton/Exo (dermal) skeleton - Mesoderm/Neural Crest: Two pair of problems and a shifting paradigm

Old, new and new-old concepts about the evolution of teeth

(2014) P. E. Witten et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ICHTHYOLOGY

Zebrafish (Danio rerio) in calcium-poor water mobilise calcium and phosphorus from scales

(2014) J. R. Metz et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ICHTHYOLOGY

Poly- and oligomerization of scales in the blue breamBallerus ballerus(Cyprinidae) as a consequence of thyroid status regulation

(2014) B. A. Levin et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ICHTHYOLOGY

Palaeontology: Turtles in Transition

(2013) Michael S.Y. Lee   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Dermal fin rays and scales derive from mesoderm, not neural crest

(2013) Raymond Teck Ho Lee et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Scales of fish arise from mesoderm

(2013) Alessandro Mongera et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Evolutionary Origin of the Turtle Shell

(2013) Tyler R. Lyson et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Genetic lineage labeling in zebrafish uncovers novel neural crest contributions to the head, including gill pillar cells

(2013) A. Mongera et al.   DEVELOPMENT

An exclusively mesodermal origin of fin mesenchyme demonstrates that zebrafish trunk neural crest does not generate ectomesenchyme

(2013) R. T. H. Lee et al.   DEVELOPMENT

Late-emigrating trunk neural crest cells in turtle embryos generate an osteogenic ectomesenchyme in the plastron

(2013) Judith A. Cebra-Thomas et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL DYNAMICS

The draft genomes of soft-shell turtle and green sea turtle yield insights into the development and evolution of the turtle-specific body plan

(2013) Zhuo Wang et al.   NATURE GENETICS

The endoskeletal origin of the turtle carapace

(2013) Tatsuya Hirasawa et al.   Nature Communications

Trunk exoskeleton in teleosts is mesodermal in origin

(2013) Atsuko Shimada et al.   Nature Communications

Natural Flexible Dermal Armor

(2012) Wen Yang et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Elasmoid scales of fishes as model in biomedical bone research

(2012) J. R. Metz et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ICHTHYOLOGY

Comparative genetics of postembryonic development as a means to understand evolutionary change

(2012) M. P. Harris   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ICHTHYOLOGY

Skeletogenic Fate of Zebrafish Cranial and Trunk Neural Crest

(2012) Erika Kague et al.   PLoS One

Body plan of turtles: an anatomical, developmental and evolutionary perspective

(2011) Hiroshi Nagashima et al.   ANATOMICAL SCIENCE INTERNATIONAL

Evolutionary developmental perspective for the origin of turtles: the folding theory for the shell based on the developmental nature of the carapacial ridge

(2011) Shigeru Kuratani et al.   EVOLUTION & DEVELOPMENT

Transitional fossils and the origin of turtles

(2010) T. R. Lyson et al.   Biology Letters

Origin and evolution of the integumentary skeleton in non-tetrapod vertebrates

(2009) Jean-Yves Sire et al.   JOURNAL OF ANATOMY

Three-dimensional reconstruction of the odontophoral cartilages of Caenogastropoda (Mollusca: Gastropoda) using micro-CT: Morphology and phylogenetic significance

(2008) Rosemary E. Golding et al.   JOURNAL OF MORPHOLOGY

An ancestral turtle from the Late Triassic of southwestern China

(2008) Chun Li et al.   NATURE