Jawed vertebrates

Part 1 book "The biology of the avian respiratory system - Evolution, development, structure and function" includes content: The evolution of birds with implications from new fossil evidences, the avian lingual and laryngeal apparatus within thecontext of the head and jaw apparatus, withcomparisons to the mammalian; pulmonary transformations of vertebrates; flying high - the unique physiology of birds that fly at high altitudes.

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It has been proposed that more than 450 million years ago, two successive whole genome duplications took place in a marine chordate lineage before leading to the common ancestor of vertebrates. A precise reconstruction of these founding events would provide a framework to better understand the impact of these early whole genome duplications on extant vertebrates.

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C H A P T E R 9 Mammals Descendants of synapsid reptiles, mammals are vertebrates with hair and mammary glands. Additional characteristics distinguishing mammals from other vertebrates include a lower jaw composed solely of a dentary bone articulating with the squamosal bone.

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