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- Medical College of Georgia
- Augusta, GA United States
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Evolutionary biology: Born-again hagfishes
Philippe Janvier1
Abstract
The strange, slimy creatures called hagfishes are of abiding interest to students of vertebrate evolution: just where do they fit in? Investigations of hagfish development take the story forward.
Hagfishes are almost blind, cartilaginous, eel-shaped, marine vertebrates and, most notably, they lack jaws. Their relationships to other major living vertebrate groups — the similarly jawless lampreys, and the jawed vertebrates — remain contentious, and one avenue of investigation is to look to embryonic development for further information.
- Philippe Janvier is at the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, UMR 5143, CNRS, 8 Rue Buffon, Paris 75005, France.
Email: janvier@mnhn.fr
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