Why coelacanths are not ‘living fossils’

Population divergence in East African coelacanths

(2012) Kathrin P. Lampert et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Extremely slow rate of evolution in the HOX cluster revealed by comparison between Tanzanian and Indonesian coelacanths

(2012) Koichiro Higasa et al.   GENE

Expansion of transducin subunit gene families in early vertebrate tetraploidizations

(2012) David Lagman et al.   GENOMICS

Tooth and cranial disparity in the fossil relatives ofSphenodon(Rhynchocephalia) dispute the persistent ‘living fossil’ label

(2012) C. Meloro et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Composition and Phylogenetic Analysis of Vitellogenin Coding Sequences in the Indonesian Coelacanth Latimeria menadoensis

(2012) ADRIANA CANAPA et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL ZOOLOGY PART B-MOLECULAR AND DEVELOPMENTAL EVOLUTION

A fork-tailed coelacanth,Rebellatrix divaricerca, gen. et sp. nov. (Actinistia, Rebellatricidae, fam. nov.), from the Lower Triassic of Western Canada

(2012) Andrew J. Wendruff et al.   JOURNAL OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY

Evolution of the Australian Lungfish (Neoceratodus forsteri) Genome: A Major Role for CR1 and L2 LINE Elements

(2012) C. J. Metcalfe et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Epistasis as the primary factor in molecular evolution

(2012) Michael S. Breen et al.   NATURE

Drift-barrier hypothesis and mutation-rate evolution

(2012) W. Sung et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Earliest known coelacanth skull extends the range of anatomically modern coelacanths to the Early Devonian

(2012) Min Zhu et al.   Nature Communications

An Endogenous Foamy-like Viral Element in the Coelacanth Genome

(2012) Guan-Zhu Han et al.   PLoS Pathogens

Genetic drift

(2011) Joanna Masel   CURRENT BIOLOGY

IDENTIFYING HETEROGENEITY IN RATES OF MORPHOLOGICAL EVOLUTION: DISCRETE CHARACTER CHANGE IN THE EVOLUTION OF LUNGFISH (SARCOPTERYGII; DIPNOI)

(2011) Graeme T. Lloyd et al.   EVOLUTION

Evolution of repeated structures along the body axis of jawed vertebrates, insights from the Scyliorhinus canicula Hox code

(2011) Silvan Oulion et al.   EVOLUTION & DEVELOPMENT

Revisiting the origin of the vertebrate Hox14 by including its relict sarcopterygian members

(2011) Nathalie Feiner et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL ZOOLOGY PART B-MOLECULAR AND DEVELOPMENTAL EVOLUTION

Hox clusters of the bichir (Actinopterygii, Polypterus senegalus) highlight unique patterns of sequence evolution in gnathostome phylogeny

(2011) Jeremy D. Raincrow et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL ZOOLOGY PART B-MOLECULAR AND DEVELOPMENTAL EVOLUTION

The population biology of the living coelacanth studied over 21 years

(2011) Hans Fricke et al.   MARINE BIOLOGY

Replication-Associated Mutational Asymmetry in the Human Genome

(2011) Chun-Long Chen et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

A Living Fossil in the Genome of a Living Fossil: Harbinger Transposons in the Coelacanth Genome

(2011) J. J. Smith et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Genetically distinct coelacanth population off the northern Tanzanian coast

(2011) M. Nikaido et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Genome Biology of the Cyclostomes and Insights into the Evolutionary Biology of Vertebrate Genomes

(2010) J. J. Smith et al.   INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY

Mitochondrial genomic divergence in coelacanths (Latimeria): slow rate of evolution or recent speciation?

(2010) Sudarto et al.   MARINE BIOLOGY

Evolution of Hox Gene Clusters in Gnathostomes: Insights from a Survey of a Shark (Scyliorhinus canicula) Transcriptome

(2010) S. Oulion et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Two Lamprey Hedgehog Genes Share Non-Coding Regulatory Sequences and Expression Patterns with Gnathostome Hedgehogs

(2010) Shungo Kano et al.   PLoS One

Complete HOX cluster characterization of the coelacanth provides further evidence for slow evolution of its genome

(2010) Chris T. Amemiya et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Evolution of the mutation rate

(2010) Michael Lynch   TRENDS IN GENETICS

Conservation of shh cis-regulatory architecture of the coelacanth is consistent with its ancestral phylogenetic position

(2010) Michael Lang et al.   EvoDevo

A pervasive denigration of natural history misconstrues how biodiversity inventories and taxonomy underpin scientific knowledge

(2009) Fenton P. D. Cotterill et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

Evolutionary Dynamics of Rhodopsin Type 2 Opsins in Vertebrates

(2009) Shozo Yokoyama et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Developmental Biology of Hagfishes, with a Report on Newly Obtained Embryos of the Japanese Inshore Hagfish, Eptatretus burgeri

(2009) Kinya G. Ota et al.   ZOOLOGICAL SCIENCE

Tree thinking for all biology: the problem with reading phylogenies as ladders of progress

(2008) Kevin E. Omland et al.   BIOESSAYS