Protein signaling and morphological development of the tail fluke in the embryonic beluga whale (Delphinapterus leucas)

LM Gavazzi, M Nair, R Suydam, S Usip… - Developmental …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Background During the land‐to‐sea transition of cetaceans (whales, dolphins, and
porpoises), the hindlimbs were lost and replaced by an elaborate tail fluke that evolved 32 …

A tradeoff evolution between acoustic fat bodies and skull muscles in toothed whales

H Takeuchi, TF Matsuishi, T Hayakawa - Gene, 2024 - Elsevier
Toothed whales have developed specialized echolocation abilities that are crucial for
underwater activities. Acoustic fat bodies, including the melon, extramandibular fat body …

New Species Can Broaden Myelin Research: Suitability of Little Skate, Leucoraja erinacea

W Möbius, S Hümmert, T Ruhwedel, A Kuzirian… - Life, 2021 - mdpi.com
Although myelinated nervous systems are shared among 60,000 jawed vertebrates, studies
aimed at understanding myelination have focused more and more on mice and zebrafish. To …

Comparative transcriptomics shows the evolutionary origin of acoustic fat bodies through a trade-off with skull muscles in toothed whales

H Takeuchi, TF Matsuishi, T Hayakawa - bioRxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
Toothed whales (odontocetes) have developed acoustic fat bodies, which include forehead
melon, extra-mandibular fat body and intra-mandibular fat body. These contribute to the …

[PDF][PDF] Protein signaling and morphological development of the tail fluke in the embryonic beluga whale (Delphinapterus

LM Gavazzi, M Nair, R Suydam, S Usip… - 2024 - researchgate.net
Background: During the land-to-sea transition of cetaceans (whales, dolphins, and
porpoises), the hindlimbs were lost and replaced by an elaborate tail fluke that evolved 32 …

[BOOK][B] Evolutionary and Developmental Novelty in Cetacean Limbs and Tail Flukes

LM Gavazzi - 2023 - search.proquest.com
The cetacean transition from life on land to an exclusively aquatic niche is accompanied by
a suite of morphological and skeletal changes that are well-documented in the fossil record …

Heuristics for the Specific Substring Problem with Hamming Distance

LB Rocha, SS Adi, MA Stefanes… - 2019 IEEE 19th …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
An important problem in Computational Biology is to determine genetic markers, substrings
of a set of sequences that do not occur on sequences of other sets. Applications for this …