1st Edition
The Origin of Higher Clades Osteology, Myology, Phylogeny and Evolution of Bony Fishes and the Rise of Tetrapods
Preface
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
1. Introduction and Aims
2. Methodology and Material
3. Phylogenetic Analysis
3.1 Cladistic Analysis, Diagnosis for Clades Obtained, and
Comparison with Previous Hypotheses
4. Comparative Anatomy, Higher-level Phylogeny and
Macroevolution of Osteichthyans—A Discussion
4.1 Brief Summary of the Phylogenetic
Results Obtained in the Cladistic Analysis
4.2 Comparative Anatomy, Homologies, and
Evolution of Osteichthyan Cranial Muscles
4.3 Cranial Muscles, Zebrafish, and Evolutionary
Developmental Biology
4.4 Comparative Anatomy, Homologies and Evolution of
Osteichthyan Pectoral Muscles
4.5 Origin, Homologies and Evolution of
the Weberian Apparatus
4.6 Myological versus Osteological Characters in
Phylogenetic Reconstructions: A New Insight
References
Plates 1-7
Index
Biography
Rui Diogo (Howard University College of Medicine, Washington DC, USA).
