gnathostome

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gnathostome

(năth′ə-stōm′)

Any of numerous animals of the group Gnathostomata, consisting of all vertebrates with jaws and including the mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes except for lampreys and hagfishes.

gnath′o·stome′ adj.

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Increased global trade of live fish increases the risk that gnathostomes and other fish-borne parasites will be introduced into regions along with their introduced hosts.

Gnathostoma spp. in live Asian swamp eels (Monopterus spp.) from food markets and wild populations, United States

Thus, it is likely that these genes have been co-opted to an earlier function in the gnathostome lineage or have lost their early specification function in lampreys.

Insights from a sea lamprey into the evolution of neural crest gene regulatory network

All modern-day gnathostomes, from mammals to elasmobranches, have structurally and compositionally similar myelin sheaths.

Myelin tetraspan family proteins but no non-tetraspan family proteins are present in the ascidian (Ciona intestinalis) genome

Furthermore, the analysis demonstrated that all of these early members of the modern gnathostomes are clearly separated from what now appear to be the most primitive vertebrates with jaws: a collection of armored fishes called placoderms.

Common ancestors of humans, fishes and reptiles looked like sharks

Duguay et al [45] studied the Divergence of insulin-like growth factors I and II in the elasmobranch Squalus acanthias and observed that the prototypical IGF molecule duplicated and diverged in an ancestor of the extant gnathostomes. According to Reinecke et al [136] in most bony fish species with the exception of Cottus, IGF-1 and insulin display a distinct cellular distribution, similar to that of mammals which may indicate that the branching of IGF-1 and insulin has occurred at the phylogenetic level of bony fish.

A review on the physiology of Insulin like Growth Factor-I (IGF-I) peptide in bony fishes and its phylogenetic correlation in 30 different taxa of 14 families of teleosts

For example, humans are included in the following nested clades (using the informal names): eukaryotes, animals, deuterostomes, vertebrates, gnathostomes, tetrapods, amniotes, mammals, eutherians, primates, monkeys, apes, and great apes (see Dawkins, 2004 for more information on the ancestry of humans).

Phylogenies & tree-thinking

(1995) The forebrain of gnathostomes: in search of a morphotype.

Diferentes estrategias de aprendizaje espacial en tortugas reveladas mediante un procedimiento de inversion en un laberinto radial

In these jawed vertebrates (gnathostomes), the hyomandibula played a dual role in feeding and gill ventilation.

Phylogeny and embryology of the facial nerve and related structures. Part I: phylogeny

Because they resemble later sharks so closely, the Ordovician animals qualify as the closest relatives of the gnathostomes, or jawed vertebrates.

The first shark: to bite or not to bite?

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

Handed behavior in hagfish-an ancient vertebrate lineage and a survey of lateralized behaviors in other invertebrate chordates and elongate vertebrates

His major research area is foodborne zoonotic parasites, including echinostomes, heterophyids, and gnathostomes.