Skeletal muscle powers all movement of the vertebrate body and is distributed in multiple
regions that have evolved distinct functions. Axial muscles are ancestral muscles essential …

The question of how tetrapod limbs evolved from fins is one of the great puzzles of
evolutionary biology. While palaeontologists, developmental biologists, and geneticists have …

One of the most intriguing questions in vertebrate evolution is how tetrapods gained the
ability to walk on land. Although many hypotheses have been proposed, few have been …

Chordates comprise lampreys, hagfishes, jawed fishes, and tetrapods, plus a variety of more
unfamiliar and crucially important non-vertebrate animal lineages, such as lancelets and sea …

Tetrapod limbs are a key innovation implicated in the evolutionary success of the clade.
Although musculoskeletal evolution of the pectoral appendage across the fins‐to‐limbs …

The fin-to-limb transition is heralded as one of the most important events in vertebrate
evolution. Over the last few decades our understanding of how limbs evolved has …

In this study, we comprehensively searched for fish‐specific genes in gnathostomes that
contribute to development of the fin, a fish‐specific trait. Many previous reports suggested …

Background The origin of jawed vertebrates was marked by profound reconfigurations of the
skeleton and muscles of the head and by the acquisition of two sets of paired appendages …

The model organism Dario rerio (zebrafish) is widely used in evo-devo and comparative
studies. Nevertheless, little is known about the development and differentiation of the …

In the last decades, Danio rerio became one of the most used model organisms in various
evo‐devo studies devoted to the fin skeletal anatomy and fin‐limb transition. Surprisingly …