Bacteria discovered in healthy vertebrate brains suggest potential role in brain function
Researchers at the University of New Mexico have identified the presence of bacteria in the healthy brains of fish. Understanding ...
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Flea Toad May Be World’s Smallest Vertebrate
A trio of biologists from the Universidade Estadual de Santa Cruz, Brazil, verified that a small frog, Brachycephalus pulex, also ...
Ancient retroviruses played a key role in vertebrate brain evolution, researchers suggest
Researchers' report in the journal Cell that ancient viruses could be the origin of myelin – and, by extension, our ...
Researchers sequence first myxini genome, the only vertebrate lineage without a reference genome
An international scientific team made up of more than 40 authors from seven different countries, led by a researcher from ...
Study of lamprey embryos sheds light on evolutionary origin of vertebrate heads
The origin of the vertebrate skull is the subject of much debate among evolutionary biologists. Some believe that the head ...
Study brings together new information on the evolutionary origin of vertebrate jaws
Jaws are bone or cartilage-based structures that hold teeth together in the mouths of most vertebrates (i.e., all animal species ...
