IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/nat/nature/v440y2006i7088d10.1038_nature04471.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Lamprey-like gills in a gnathostome-related Devonian jawless vertebrate

Author

Listed:
  • Philippe Janvier

    (UMR 5143, CNRS, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, CP38
    The Natural History Museum)

  • Sylvain Desbiens

    (Parc National de Miguasha)

  • Jason A. Willett

    (Parc National de Miguasha)

  • Marius Arsenault

    (Parc National de Miguasha)

Abstract

Jaw, jaw not gill, gill Gill pouches are present in living cyclostomes (hagfish and lampreys) and their fossil predecessors. Their presence was suspected in all jawless vertebrates, but there has been little solid evidence to back up this idea. Now lamprey-like gills have been identified in a well preserved 370-million-year-old specimen of Endeiolepis, known as a ‘naked anaspid’ as it has no scales so was probably slimy. The anaspids are stem gnathostomes — jawless vertebrates more closely related to jawed vertebrates than to the cyclostomes — so this discovery suggests that gill pouches were present in the last common ancestor of all vertebrates, and were later lost in jawed vertebrates.

Suggested Citation

  • Philippe Janvier & Sylvain Desbiens & Jason A. Willett & Marius Arsenault, 2006. "Lamprey-like gills in a gnathostome-related Devonian jawless vertebrate," Nature, Nature, vol. 440(7088), pages 1183-1185, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:440:y:2006:i:7088:d:10.1038_nature04471
    DOI: 10.1038/nature04471
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/nature04471
    File Function: Abstract
    Download Restriction: Access to the full text of the articles in this series is restricted.
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1038/nature04471?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:440:y:2006:i:7088:d:10.1038_nature04471. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sonal Shukla or Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.nature.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.