A major event in vertebrate evolution was the transition from aquatic to terrestrial life, made possible by the emergence of ...

Early limb development requires fibroblast growth factor (Fgf)-mediated coordination between growth and patterning to ensure the proper formation of a functional organ. The apical ectodermal ridge ...

By contrast, adaptive immunity, which involves lymphocyte-like cells and the antigen-binding receptors they express, is restricted to vertebrates. A major departure in adaptive immunity is evident ...

A mother was forced to have three of her limbs amputated when she developed a ‘silent killer’ disease after giving birth to twins. Khedidja Teape, 29 and from south-east London, was overjoyed ...

A woman had to have all four of her limbs amputated after eating contaminated fish. Laura Barajas from California suffered a horrendous ordeal when she reportedly contracted an infection, which placed ...

Those animals went on to become the tetrapods, a broad category of vertebrates with four limbs and distinct digits, including mammals. Most of those mammals have remained land animals but ...

Chondrichthyes (cartilaginous fishes) are fundamental for understanding vertebrate evolution, yet their genomes are understudied. We report long-read sequencing of the whale shark genome to generate ...

In contrast to what has been reported in lower vertebrate classes, the mammalian vestibular efferent system does not appear to relay inputs from other sensory modalities to the vestibular periphery.

To date no known intrinsic determinants of muscle-specific pSN fates have been described in vertebrates. We show that expression of Hox transcription factors defines pSN subtypes, and these profiles ...