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The Tree of Life and a New Classification of Bony Fishes

2013; Public Library of Science; Linguagem: Inglês

10.1371/currents.tol.53ba26640df0ccaee75bb165c8c26288

2157-3999

Ricardo Betancur‐R, Richard E. Broughton, E. O. Wiley, Kent E. Carpenter, J. Andrés López, Chenhong Li, Nancy I. Holcroft, Dahiana Arcila, Millicent D. Alexandrov Sanciangco, James C. Cureton, Feifei Zhang, Thaddaeus John Buser, Matthew A. Campbell, Jesús A. Ballesteros, Adela Roa‐Varón, Stuart C. Willis, W. Calvin Borden, Thaine Rowley, Paulette C. Reneau, Daniel J. Hough, Guoqing Lu, Terry Grande, Gloria Arratia, Guillermo Ortı́,

Evolution and Paleontology Studies

Vertebrate bone is composed of three main cell types: osteoblasts, osteoclasts and osteocytes, the latter being by far the most numerous.Osteocytes are thought to play a fundamental role in bone physiology and homeostasis, however they are entirely absent in most extant species of teleosts, a group that comprises the vast majority of bony 'fishes', and approximately half of vertebrates.Understanding how this acellular (anosteocytic) bone appeared and was