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Evidence for a single loss of mineralized teeth in the common avian ancestor.

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2014-12-12
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Meredith, Robert W
Zhang, Guojie
Gilbert, M Thomas P
Jarvis, Erich D
Springer, Mark S
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Abstract
Edentulism, the absence of teeth, has evolved convergently among vertebrates, including birds, turtles, and several lineages of mammals. Instead of teeth, modern birds (Neornithes) use a horny beak (rhamphotheca) and a muscular gizzard to acquire and process food. We performed comparative genomic analyses representing lineages of nearly all extant bird orders and recovered shared, inactivating mutations within genes expressed in both the enamel and dentin of teeth of other vertebrate species, indicating that the common ancestor of modern birds lacked mineralized teeth. We estimate that tooth loss, or at least the loss of enamel caps that provide the outer layer of mineralized teeth, occurred about 116 million years ago.
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Journal article
Subject
Alligators and Crocodiles
Animals
Biological Evolution
Birds
Dental Enamel
Dentin
Evolution, Molecular
Fossils
Genome
Genomics
Mammals
Mutation
Phylogeny
Tooth
Vertebrates
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https://hdl.handle.net/10161/11152
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10.1126/science.1254390
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Meredith, Robert W; Zhang, Guojie; Gilbert, M Thomas P; Jarvis, Erich D; & Springer, Mark S (2014). Evidence for a single loss of mineralized teeth in the common avian ancestor. Science, 346(6215). pp. 1254390. 10.1126/science.1254390. Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/10161/11152.
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Erich David Jarvis

Adjunct Professor in the Dept. of Neurobiology
Dr. Jarvis' laboratory studies the neurobiology of vocal communication. Emphasis is placed on the molecular pathways involved in the perception and production of learned vocalizations. They use an integrative approach that combines behavioral, anatomical, electrophysiological and molecular biological techniques. The main animal model used is songbirds, one of the few vertebrate groups that evolved the ability to learn vocalizations. The generality of the discoveries is tested in other vocal
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