The bowfin informs the evolution of the appendage skeleton (IMAGE)

Harvard University, Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology

The bowfin informs the evolution of the appendage skeleton

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Schematics show the arrangement of bones in fins and limbs. Elements that are derived from the ancestral metapterygium are shown in magenta. The tetrapod limb and a portion of the bowfin fin arose from the metapterygium, while teleosts have lost the metapterygial components

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M. Brent Hawkins

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