Sentence examples for ancestral fish from inspiring English sources
The phrase "ancestral fish" is correct and usable in written English
It can be used in contexts discussing evolutionary biology, paleontology, or discussions about the origins of certain species. Example: "The study of ancestral fish provides valuable insights into the evolution of vertebrates."
"Our ancestral fish already had the cell types that later led to walking," he said.
His accomplishment is to have identified lapsed breeding grounds and discrete populations of ancestral fish among an aggregation that has always been assumed to be monolithic… In 1994, Ames worked on a commission that considered raising cod in a hatchery.
"If this kind of gene expression happened in an ancestral fish that may have led to limb development," said Marie-Andree Akimenko, a biologist at the University of Ottawa in Canada and one of the study's authors.
The coelacanth and the lungfish have long been battling for the honor of which is closer to the ancestral fish that first used fins to walk on land and give rise to the tetrapods, meaning all the original vertebrates and their descendants, from reptiles and birds to mammals.
This suggests that the ancestral fish V2R gene cluster was already present in the most recent common ancestor of the four fishes.
Based on phylogenetic analyses, we predict that there were at least six α and ten γ genes (or paralog groups) in the Pcdh locus of the ancestral fish genome prior to the whole-genome duplication event.
First appearing about 340 million years ago during the Middle Mississippian Epoch, they were one of the earliest groups to diverge from ancestral fish-tetrapod stock during the evolution of animals from strictly aquatic forms to terrestrial types.
The teeth of vertebrates represent the modified descendants of bony dermal (skin) plates that armoured ancestral fishes.
But he is already thinking about what's next: looking at the social and economic effects of the Grand Coulee Dam on local American Indian tribes, with a focus on the inundation of burial sites and ancestral fishing grounds.
The origin of the tetrapod vertebral column (holospondylous and monospondylous, meaning with a single fused centrum per body segment) from that of ancestral fishes likewise demonstrates a marked decrease in vertebral complexity.
Tadpoles retain the lateral line system of their ancestral fishes, but this is lost in terrestrial adult amphibians.
