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The Gastric Phenotype in the Cypriniform Loaches: A Case of Reinvention?
PloS one - 1 Jan 2016
Gonçalves Odete, Castro L Filipe C, Smolka Adam J, Fontainhas António, Wilson Jonathan M
Abstract excerpt
The stomach, which is characterized by acid peptic digestion in vertebrates, has been lost secondarily multiple times in the evolution of the teleost fishes. The Cypriniformes are largely seen as an agastric order; however, within the superfamily Cobitoidea, the closely related sister groups Nemacheilidae and Balitoridae have been identified as gastric families. The presence of these most recently diverged...
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