The ins and outs of the evolutionary origin of teeth

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

(2014) Vincent Dupret et al.   NATURE

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

Histology of “placoderm” dermal skeletons: Implications for the nature of the ancestral gnathostome

(2013) Sam Giles et al.   JOURNAL OF MORPHOLOGY

A Silurian placoderm with osteichthyan-like marginal jaw bones

(2013) Min Zhu et al.   NATURE

The origin of conodonts and of vertebrate mineralized skeletons

(2013) Duncan J. E. Murdock et al.   NATURE

Tissue diversity and evolutionary trends of the dermal skeleton of Silurian thelodonts

(2013) Živilė Žigaitė et al.   HISTORICAL BIOLOGY

Testing models of dental development in the earliest bony vertebrates, Andreolepis and Lophosteus

(2012) J. A. Cunningham et al.   Biology Letters

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

(2012) Samuel P. Davis et al.   NATURE

Skeletogenic Fate of Zebrafish Cranial and Trunk Neural Crest

(2012) Erika Kague et al.   PLoS One

Teeth before jaws? Comparative analysis of the structure and development of the external and internal scales in the extinct jawless vertebrate Loganellia scotica

(2011) Martin Rücklin et al.   EVOLUTION & DEVELOPMENT

False teeth: conodont-vertebrate phylogenetic relationships revisited

(2011) Susan Turner et al.   GEODIVERSITAS

Tooth-like scales in Early Devonian eugnathostomes and the ‘outside-in’ hypothesis for the origins of teeth in vertebrates

(2011) Stephanie A. Blais et al.   JOURNAL OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY

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

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

The odontode explosion: The origin of tooth-like structures in vertebrates

(2010) Gareth J. Fraser et al.   BIOESSAYS

A revised hypothesis on the evolutionary origin of the vertebrate dentition

(2010) A. Huysseune et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ICHTHYOLOGY

Evolution of developmental pattern for vertebrate dentitions: an oro-pharyngeal specific mechanism

(2010) Gareth J. Fraser et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL ZOOLOGY PART B-MOLECULAR AND DEVELOPMENTAL EVOLUTION

A reappraisal of the origin and basal radiation of the Osteichthyes

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

Thelodont phylogeny revisited, with inclusion of key scale-based taxa

(2009) M V Wilson et al.   Estonian Journal of Earth Sciences

Evolutionary and developmental origins of the vertebrate dentition

(2009) Ann Huysseune et al.   JOURNAL OF ANATOMY

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

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

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

(2009) Martin D. Brazeau   NATURE

Buccopharyngo-branchial denticles ofPhlebolepis elegansPander (Thelodonti, Agnatha)

(2008) Tiiu Märss et al.   JOURNAL OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY

Dual epithelial origin of vertebrate oral teeth

(2008) Vladimír Soukup et al.   NATURE

The interrelationships of ‘complex’ conodonts (Vertebrata)

(2007) Philip C. J. Donoghue et al.   JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC PALAEONTOLOGY