Pre-oral gut contributes to facial structures in non-teleost fishes

Martin Minarik, Jan Stundl, Peter Fabian, David Jandzik, Brian D. Metscher, Martin Psenicka, David Gela, Adriana Osorio-Pérez, Lenin Arias-Rodriguez, Ivan Horácek and Robert Cerny ()
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Martin Minarik: Charles University
Jan Stundl: Charles University
Peter Fabian: Charles University
David Jandzik: Charles University
Brian D. Metscher: University of Vienna
Martin Psenicka: University of South Bohemia in České Bud ějovice, Faculty of Fisheries and Protection of Waters, Research Institute of Fish Culture and Hydrobiology, South Bohemian Research Center of Aquaculture and Biodiversity of Hydrocenoses
David Gela: University of South Bohemia in České Bud ějovice, Faculty of Fisheries and Protection of Waters, Research Institute of Fish Culture and Hydrobiology, South Bohemian Research Center of Aquaculture and Biodiversity of Hydrocenoses
Adriana Osorio-Pérez: Universidad Juárez Autónoma de Tabasco, División Académica de Ciencias Biológicas
Lenin Arias-Rodriguez: Universidad Juárez Autónoma de Tabasco, División Académica de Ciencias Biológicas
Ivan Horácek: Charles University
Robert Cerny: Charles University

Nature, 2017, vol. 547, issue 7662, 209-212

Abstract: In contrast to the prevailing belief that the gut begins with the mouth and continues backwards from there, this work shows that substantial areas of the faces of ray-finned fishes originate from the pre-oral gut or endoderm.

Date: 2017
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