The oldest articulated osteichthyan reveals mosaic gnathostome characters.
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Symbols indicate representative family members of lamprey-gnathostome homology groups.
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Appendage expression driven by the Hoxd global control region is an ancient gnathostome feature.
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The Dlx code arose along the gnathostome stem, and was primitively deployed in all pharyngeal arches.
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Gnathostome diversity comprises roughly 60,000 species, which accounts for 99% of all living vertebrates.
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Analyses of the assembly indicate that two whole-genome duplications likely occurred before the divergence of ancestral lamprey and gnathostome lineages.
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Dissecting the function of myelination-related genes in lamprey and hagfish should continue to shed light on the origin of gnathostome myelin.
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Detection of extensive conserved synteny with gnathostome genomes indicates that the lamprey scaffolds accurately reflect the chromosomal organization of the lamprey genome.
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Moreover, homologs from individual pairs of gnathostome chromosomes were recurrently observed in interdigitated syntenic blocks on several lamprey scaffolds.