Co-option of neck muscles supported the vertebrate water-to-land transition

Abstract A major event in vertebrate evolution was the separation of the skull from the pectoral girdle and the acquisition of a functional neck, transitions that required profound developmental rearrangements of the musculoskeletal system. The neck is a hallmark of the tetrapod body plan and allows...

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Main Authors: Eglantine Heude, Hugo Dutel, Frida Sanchez-Garrido, Karin D. Prummel, Robert Lalonde, France Lam, Christian Mosimann, Anthony Herrel, Shahragim Tajbakhsh
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2024-12-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-54724-x
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