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coelacanth::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | latimeria chalumnae |
| Type of | crossopterygian, lobe-finned fish, lobefin |
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Sequencing the full coelacanth genome was uniquely challenging for many reasons.
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This means that the coelacanth lineage has evolved from freshwater to saltwater.
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Because it has changed so little the coelacanth is ideal for genetic comparisons.
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In contrast, the coelacanth genome is smaller than that of either humans or mice.
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We next examined the abundance of transposable elements in the coelacanth genome.
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This suggests a slightly longer divergence time for the two coelacanth species.
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The Comoro Islands where that most ancient of fishes, the coelacanth, is found.
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Here we report the genome sequence of the African coelacanth, Latimeria chalumnae.
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Here's a phylogeny of the coelacanth-like fossils and their one surviving species.
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- Fish thought to have been extinct since the Cretaceous period but found in 1938 off the coast of Africa
- The coelacanths (i/u02C8siu02D0lu0259ku00E6nu03B8/ SEE-lu0259-kanth) constitute a now rare order of fish that includes two extant species in the genus Latimeria: the West Indian Ocean coelacanth primarily found near the Comoro Islands off the east coast of Africa (Latimeria chalumnae) and the Indonesian coelacanth (Latimeria menadoensis)...
- Either of two species of deep-water fish, Latimeria chalumnae of the Indian Ocean and L. menadoensis of Indonesia; Any lobe-finned fish in the order Coelacanthiformes, thought until 1938 to have been extinct for 70 million years
- A living species of fish that is one of the few surviving members of the sarcopterygian fish group that is most closely related to the land tetrapods (amphibians, reptiles, mammals, birds)
- Fossil fish that was discovered to still be alive in 1938
- A lobe-finned fish originating in the Paleozoic and presently living in deep seas [LCOTE]
- A type of fish, nearly extinct, noted for its lobe-fins, fins with a long limb-like base, intermediate in form between typical fins and the limbs of land animals. (pronounced see-la-canth).
