Harvard Medical School: A Fish Called Spondo
June 26, 2020
June 26, 2020
BOSTON, Massachusetts, June 26 -- Harvard Medical School issued the following news:
A spine is a spine is a spine--or is it?
From sharks to salamanders to hawks to humans, vertebrates have backbones in common. Even so, vertebrae can form in divergent ways and have a variety of structures across vertebrate classes.
For instance, the spines of teleost fish, which account for more than half of all vertebrates, follow different developmental steps from those of . . .
A spine is a spine is a spine--or is it?
From sharks to salamanders to hawks to humans, vertebrates have backbones in common. Even so, vertebrae can form in divergent ways and have a variety of structures across vertebrate classes.
For instance, the spines of teleost fish, which account for more than half of all vertebrates, follow different developmental steps from those of . . .