Browsing Faculty of Arts and Sciences by Keyword "Crocodylia"

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    • Developmental and evolutionary origins of the crocodylian snout and amniote face 

      Morris, Zachary Stephen (2020-11-23)
      Crocodylians (alligators, crocodiles, and gharial) are instantly recognizable by their flattened skulls and tooth-filled jaws, adaptations which aid in capturing prey in shallow water and along riverbanks. A popular ...

    • The evolution and development of the archosaurian head and the origin of the bird skull 

      Bhullar, Bhart-Anjan Singh (2014-06-06)
      Abstract: Archosauria, the "ruling reptiles," characterized along their stem by relatively large, macrocarnivorous animals, are today represented by two enormously successful but divergent extant clades: Aves, the birds, ...

    • Sequencing Three Crocodilian Genomes to Illuminate the Evolution of Archosaurs and Amniotes 

      St John, John A; Braun, Edward L; Isberg, Sally R; Miles, Lee G; Chong, Amanda Y; Gongora, Jaime; Dalzell, Pauline; Bed'Hom, Bertrand; Burgess, Shane C; Cooksey, Amanda M; Castoe, Todd A; Densmore, Llewellyn D; Drew, Jennifer C; Faircloth, Brant C; Greenwold, Matthew J; Hoffmann, Federico G; Howard, Jonathan M; Iguchi, Taisen; Janes, Daniel E; Khan, Shahid Yar; Kohno, Satomi; de Koning, AP Jason; Lance, Stacey L; McCarthy, Fiona M; McCormack, John E; Merchant, Mark E; Peterson, Daniel G; Pollock, David D; Pourmand, Nader; Raney, Brian J; Roessler, Kyria A; Sanford, Jeremy R; Sawyer, Roger H; Schmidt, Carl J; Triplett, Eric W; Tuberville, Tracey D; Venegas-Anaya, Miryam; Howard, Jason T; Jarvis, Erich D; Guillette, Louis J; Glenn, Travis C; Ray, David A; Moran, Christopher J; Abzhanov, Arkhat; Crawford, Nicholas G.; Moran, Christopher; Edwards, Scott V.; Fujita, Matthew; Green, Richard E. (BioMed Central, 2012)
      The International Crocodilian Genomes Working Group (ICGWG) will sequence and assemble the American alligator (Alligator mississippiensis), saltwater crocodile (Crocodylus porosus) and Indian gharial (Gavialis gangeticus) ...