The origin and early phylogenetic history of jawed vertebrates

Evolution of the vertebrate jaw from developmental perspectives

(2015) Shigeru Kuratani   EVOLUTION & DEVELOPMENT

A primitive placoderm sheds light on the origin of the jawed vertebrate face

(2014) Vincent Dupret et al.   NATURE

Copulation in antiarch placoderms and the origin of gnathostome internal fertilization

(2014) John A. Long et al.   NATURE

The characters of Palaeozoic jawed vertebrates

(2014) Martin D. Brazeau et al.   ZOOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Partial articulated specimen of the Early Devonian putative chondrichthyanPolymerolepis whiteiKaratajūtė-Talimaa, 1968, with an anal fin spine

(2013) Gavin F. Hanke et al.   GEODIVERSITAS

A Silurian placoderm with osteichthyan-like marginal jaw bones

(2013) Min Zhu et al.   NATURE

Acanthodes and shark-like conditions in the last common ancestor of modern gnathostomes

(2012) Samuel P. Davis et al.   NATURE

Craniofacial development of hagfishes and the evolution of vertebrates

(2012) Yasuhiro Oisi et al.   NATURE

Chondrichthyan-like scales from the Middle Ordovician of Australia

(2012) IVAN J. SANSOM et al.   PALAEONTOLOGY

Basal Jawed Vertebrate Phylogenomics Using Transcriptomic Data from Solexa Sequencing

(2012) Ming Chen et al.   PLoS One

Fossil Fishes from China Provide First Evidence of Dermal Pelvic Girdles in Osteichthyans

(2012) Min Zhu et al.   PLoS One

Fossil jawless fish from China foreshadows early jawed vertebrate anatomy

(2011) Zhikun Gai et al.   NATURE

Initial radiation of jaws demonstrated stability despite faunal and environmental change

(2011) Philip S. L. Anderson et al.   NATURE

Identification of vertebra-like elements and their possible differentiation from sclerotomes in the hagfish

(2011) Kinya G. Ota et al.   Nature Communications

Placoderms (Armored Fish): Dominant Vertebrates of the Devonian Period

(2010) Gavin C. Young   Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

The Late Devonian Gogo Formation Lägerstatte of Western Australia: Exceptional Early Vertebrate Preservation and Diversity

(2010) John A. Long et al.   Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Evolutionary novelties

(2010) Günter P. Wagner et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

A reappraisal of the origin and basal radiation of the Osteichthyes

(2010) Matt Friedman † et al.   JOURNAL OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY

microRNAs reveal the interrelationships of hagfish, lampreys, and gnathostomes and the nature of the ancestral vertebrate

(2010) A. M. Heimberg et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

On the Dedopment of the Skeleton of the Paired Fins of Elasmobranchii, considered in Relation to its Bearings on the Nature of the Limbs of the Vertebrata.

(2010) F. M. Balfour   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON

Palaeozoogeographical connections of the Devonian vertebrate communities of the Baltica Province. Part I. Eifelian–Givetian

(2010) E. Lukševičs et al.   Palaeoworld

The braincase of the chondrichthyanDoliodusfrom the Lower Devonian Campbellton Formation of New Brunswick, Canada

(2009) John Maisey et al.   ACTA ZOOLOGICA

Phylogeny, classification and character polarity of the Osteostraci (Vertebrata)

(2009) Robert S. Sansom   JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC PALAEONTOLOGY

The braincase and jaws of a Devonian ‘acanthodian’ and modern gnathostome origins

(2009) Martin D. Brazeau   NATURE

The oldest articulated osteichthyan reveals mosaic gnathostome characters

(2009) Min Zhu et al.   NATURE

Devonian arthrodire embryos and the origin of internal fertilization in vertebrates

(2009) John A. Long et al.   NATURE

Endemicity and palaeobiogeography of the Osteostraci and Galeaspida: a test of scenarios of gnathostome evolution

(2009) ROBERT S. SANSOM   PALAEONTOLOGY

Siluro-Devonian vertebrate biostratigraphy and biogeography of China

(2009) Wen-Jin Zhao et al.   Palaeoworld