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Meanings of
tetrapods
in English
Russian
тетраподы
Portuguese
tetrápodes
Catalan
tetràpode
Spanish
tetrapoda
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Superclass of the first four-limbed vertebrates and their descendants.
tetrapoda
Related terms
taxon
tetrapod
Russian
тетраподы
Usage of
tetrapods
in English
1
Today three early
tetrapods
are known and none has five digits.
2
The ZRS drives the early spatio-temporal expression pattern in the limb of
tetrapods
.
3
Lungfish are a unique order of sarcopterygian fish cleidographically positioned between
tetrapods
and fish.
4
The earliest
tetrapods
lived in lush, swampy environments that were not in risk of evaporating.
5
This feature is present in sharks and rays, and in extant relatives of
tetrapods
,
the lungfishes.
6
The forelimbs of
tetrapods
are known for their versatility, used to walk, dig, fly or swim.
7
The divergence of coelacanths, lungfish, and
tetrapods
is thought to have occurred about 390 million years ago.
8
Dinosaurs, whales, birds, humans, even fish-allare
tetrapods
,
which clearly suggests they come from a single common ancestor.
9
We hypothesize that gene expansion lead to functional divergence in
tetrapods
,
coincident with the invasion of terrestrial habitats.
10
This idea, proposed at the beginning of the 20th century, became the dramatic canon for the origin of
tetrapods
.
11
But all
tetrapods
separate the shoulder girdle and front appendages from the skull by a sequence of intercalated vertebrae.
12
Why... are all land
vertebrates
'
tetrapods
-
except
for
cases of secondary loss, for example snakes-whilenone have six, eight, or many legs?
13
Rhodopsin appears in the Australian and South American lungfishes, establishing emergence of this pigment in an extant relative of
tetrapods
.
14
Coelacanths might occupy a side branch of the vertebrate lineage, closely related to, yet distinct from, the ancestor of
tetrapods
.
15
Limbs were an aquatic innovation that just so happened to be advantageous when
tetrapods
began to venture out of the water.
16
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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tetrapods
tetrapod
Noun
Plural
Frequent collocations
earliest tetrapods
early tetrapods
first tetrapods
other tetrapods
position between tetrapods
Translations for
tetrapods
Russian
тетраподы
tetrapoda
наземные позвоночные
четвероногие
Portuguese
tetrápodes
Catalan
tetràpode
Spanish
tetrapoda
Tetrapods
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