Evolution and Development
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In our department, we study how the body shape, internal structure and function of different vertebrates have been changed by evolution. We also investigate how the brain evolves and develops.
Evolution and Development
Researchers and research groups
Our research programme has two main areas of research:
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What historical factors and genetic mechanisms are behind vertebrate diversity?
In our department, we study how the body shape, internal structure and function of different vertebrates have been changed by evolution. We use information from fossils and living animals, and also investigate the underlying developmental biology and genetic processes that give rise to the diversity we see in vertebrates today. Of particular interest is reconstructing the order in which character traits have arisen over time. By linking this to how the expression of genes affects the development from embryo to adult individual, we can better understand the evolutionary history of vertebrates.
Wallenbergsstiftelserna have made a film showing some of our research.
Devonian World
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Publications
100 million years of shark macroevolution: A morphometric dive into tooth shape diversity
2021
Part of 77th Annual Meeting of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, Abstract book, p. 181, 2017
2013
Part of Scientific Reports, 2018
- DOI for 3D Maps of Mineral Composition and Hydroxyapatite Orientation in Fossil Bone Samples Obtained by X-ray Diffraction Computed Tomography
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Part of PLOS ONE, 2013
- DOI for 3D Microstructural Architecture of Muscle Attachments in Extant and Fossil Vertebrates Revealed by Synchrotron Microtomography
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Part of Geological Journal, p. 4388-4392, 2022
A comparative genomic framework for the fish-tetrapod transition
Part of Science China Life Sciences, p. 664-666, 2021
A Devonian predatory fish provides insights into the early evolution of modern sarcopterygians
Part of Science Advances, 2016
- DOI for A Devonian predatory fish provides insights into the early evolution of modern sarcopterygians
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A Devonian tetrapod-like fish reveals substantial parallelism in stem tetrapod evolution
Part of Nature Ecology & Evolution, p. 1470-1476, 2017
Part of Nature Communications, 2018
- DOI for A diminutive perinate European Enantiornithes reveals an asynchronous ossification pattern in early birds
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Part of Geological Quarterly, p. 840-856, 2016
A female Viking warrior confirmed by genomics
Part of American Journal of Physical Anthropology, p. 853-860, 2017
- DOI for A female Viking warrior confirmed by genomics
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Part of Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, p. 113-124, 2016
Part of PLOS ONE, 2023
- DOI for A high latitude Gondwanan species of the Late Devonian tristichopterid Hyneria (Osteichthyes: Sarcopterygii)
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Part of Nature Protocols, p. 2357-2375, 2016
Part of Journal of Biosciences, p. 325-338, 2015
Part of Lethaia, p. 141-165, 2021
A mathematical model for mechanotransduction at the early steps of suture formation
Part of Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Biological Sciences, p. 20122670, 2013
A new antiarch placoderm from the Emsian (Early Devonian) of Wuding, Yunnan, China
Part of Alcheringa, p. 10-21, 2018
Part of Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, p. 61-79, 2018
A new early Late Triassic non-mammaliaform eucynodont from Poland
Part of Historical Biology, p. 80-92, 2020
Part of Palaeontology, p. 73-86, 2012
p. 35-35, 2012
A new large pterosaur from the Late Cretaceous of Patagonia
Part of Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, p. 1447-1452, 2012
Part of Genome Biology, 2018
- DOI for A new look at an old question: when did the second whole genome duplication occur in vertebrate evolution?
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Part of Royal Society Open Science, 2016
A new occurrence of the Late Triassic archosaur Smok in southern Poland
Part of Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, p. 703-712, 2018
- DOI for A new occurrence of the Late Triassic archosaur Smok in southern Poland
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A new osteichthyan from the late Silurian of Yunnan, China
Part of PLOS ONE, 2017
- DOI for A new osteichthyan from the late Silurian of Yunnan, China
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Part of Scientific Reports, 2015
- DOI for A New Oviraptorid Dinosaur (Dinosauria: Oviraptorosauria) from the Late Cretaceous of Southern China and Its Paleobiogeographical Implications
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A new rhamphorhynchid pterosaur (Pterosauria) from Jurassic deposits of Liaoning Province, China
Part of Zootaxa, p. 119-129, 2015
Part of Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 2015
A new thelodont from Lower Silurian of Tuva and north-west Mongolia
Part of Acta Universitatis Latviensis - Earth and Environmental Sciences, p. 158-165, 2004
Part of Comptes rendus. Palevol, p. 311-317, 2010
Part of Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France, p. 509-515, 2012
Part of eLIFE, 2022
- DOI for A novel cis-regulatory element drives early expression of Nkx3.2 in the gnathostome primary jaw joint
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A partial lower jaw of a tetrapod from "Romer's Gap"
Part of Earth and environmental science transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, p. 55-65, 2018
A Partial Tetrapod Lower Jaw from “Romer’s Gap”
Part of SVP 69th Annual Meeting and the 57th Symposium of Vertebrate Palaeontology and Comparative Anatomy (SVPCA), 2009
A plant-root system in the Lower Devonian of the Holy Cross Mountains, Poland
Part of Estonian journal of earth sciences, p. 95-98, 2015
A primitive placoderm sheds light on the origin of the jawed vertebrate face
Part of Nature, p. 500-503, 2014
Part of Acta Zoologica, p. 45-59, 2015
A re-evaluation of the historical "dinosaur' remains from the Middle-Upper Triassic of Poland
Part of Historical Biology, p. 442-472, 2017
A Selective Sweep on a Deleterious Mutation in CPT1A in Arctic Populations.
Part of American Journal of Human Genetics, 2014
A Silurian maxillate placoderm illuminates jaw evolution
Part of Science, p. 334-336, 2016
A Silurian placoderm with osteichthyan-like marginal jaw bones
Part of Nature, p. 188-+, 2013
A Supposed Eupelycosaur Body Impression from the Early Permian of the Intra-Sudetic Basin, Poland
Part of Ichnos, p. 150-155, 2012
A tetrapod fauna from within the Devonian Antarctic Circle
Part of Science, p. 1120-1124, 2018
A very primitive tetrapod from the earliest Famennian of South Timan, Russia
Part of Program and Abstracts, p. 60-60, 2011
Part of BMC Genomics, p. 607, 2012
- DOI for Abundance of female-biased and paucity of male-biased somatically expressed genes on the mouse X-chromosome
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