Sentences with phrase «how tetrapods»

«These results offer new perspectives in modeling how tetrapods may have taken their first steps onto land, by considering the unique contributions of both the forelimbs and hind limbs,» said lead author Sandy Kawano, a postdoctoral fellow at NIMBioS.

Not exact matches

Fossil finds from this transitional period are too few to explain why or how it occurred, or exactly when the first fully terrestrial tetrapods evolved.

Through her discussion of when, where, and how vertebrates first came ashore, Clack offers an up - to - date account of our understanding of the fish to tetrapod transition, one of the classic evolutionary stories.

Because these genes have the same function in zebrafish, humans, and other tetrapods, it should help researchers further understand how our ancestors left the water and evolved limbs from fins.

Emma Dunne, from the University of Birmingham's School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, said: «This is the most comprehensive survey ever undertaken on early tetrapod evolution, and uses many newly developed techniques for estimating diversity patterns of species from fossil records, allowing us greater insights into how early tetrapods responded to the changes in their environment.»

Despite this being a catastrophic event for plants, it has been unclear how this affected the early tetrapod community.

Salamanders are particularly good organisms for studying how locomotion onto land evolved, as their anatomy and ecology is similar to the earliest tetrapods.

The findings are reported by researchers from Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech), the Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG, Barcelona) and their collaborators in the journal eLife and give new insight into how fish evolved to live on land in the form of early tetrapods.

«What we're seeing in lungfish is a very nice example of how bottom - walking in fish living in water can easily come about in a very tetrapod - like pattern.»