New genomic and fossil data illuminate the origin of enamel

Qingming Qu, Tatjana Haitina, Min Zhu and Per Erik Ahlberg ()
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Qingming Qu: Uppsala University
Tatjana Haitina: Uppsala University
Min Zhu: Key Laboratory of Vertebrate Evolution and Human Origins of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Per Erik Ahlberg: Uppsala University

Nature, 2015, vol. 526, issue 7571, 108-111

Abstract: Enamel is a tissue unique to vertebrates, and nowadays associated with teeth; here, histological material from a fossil bony fish and genomic data from an extant, armour-plated fish are analysed to show that enamel originated on the body surface and only later colonized the teeth.

Date: 2015
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