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Meanings of tetrapods in anglès

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тетраподы
portuguès
tetrápodes
català
tetràpode
espanyol
tetrapoda
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Superclass of the first four-limbed vertebrates and their descendants.

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tetràpode
Usage of tetrapods in anglès
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Today three early tetrapods are known and none has five digits.
A short history of nearly everything
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The ZRS drives the early spatio-temporal expression pattern in the limb of tetrapods.
Pubmed
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Lungfish are a unique order of sarcopterygian fish cleidographically positioned between tetrapods and fish.
Pubmed
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The earliest tetrapods lived in lush, swampy environments that were not in risk of evaporating.
Wired
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This feature is present in sharks and rays, and in extant relatives of tetrapods, the lungfishes.
Pubmed
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The forelimbs of tetrapods are known for their versatility, used to walk, dig, fly or swim.
Radio NZ
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The divergence of coelacanths, lungfish, and tetrapods is thought to have occurred about 390 million years ago.
Wired
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Dinosaurs, whales, birds, humans, even fish-allare tetrapods, which clearly suggests they come from a single common ancestor.
A short history of nearly everything
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We hypothesize that gene expansion lead to functional divergence in tetrapods, coincident with the invasion of terrestrial habitats.
Pubmed
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This idea, proposed at the beginning of the 20th century, became the dramatic canon for the origin of tetrapods.
Wired
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But all tetrapods separate the shoulder girdle and front appendages from the skull by a sequence of intercalated vertebrae.
The Structure of Evolutionary Theory
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Why... are all land vertebrates'tetrapods-exceptfor cases of secondary loss, for example snakes-whilenone have six, eight, or many legs?
The Structure of Evolutionary Theory
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Rhodopsin appears in the Australian and South American lungfishes, establishing emergence of this pigment in an extant relative of tetrapods.
Pubmed
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Coelacanths might occupy a side branch of the vertebrate lineage, closely related to, yet distinct from, the ancestor of tetrapods.
Wired
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Limbs were an aquatic innovation that just so happened to be advantageous when tetrapods began to venture out of the water.
Wired
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There were concrete protrusions lined up at regular intervals, and they were shaped like the tetrapods used as breakwaters on beaches.
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Translations for tetrapods
portuguès
tetrápodes
català
tetràpode
espanyol
tetrapoda
Tetrapods through the time