Studying aging and its associated diseases has been challenging because existing vertebrate models (e.g., mice) are relatively long lived, while short-lived invertebrate species (e.g., yeast and ...

See 3-D models of animal anatomy from openVertebrate’s public collection. More than 13,000 museum specimens were CT scanned as part of a six-year-long ... But few vertebrates are tube-shaped, ...

Studying aging and its associated diseases has been challenging because existing vertebrate models (e.g., mice) are relatively long lived, while short-lived invertebrate species (e.g., yeast and ...

Another, sometimes known as the "general vertebrate model," introduced the idea of staged divergences, with habitat-driven changes in body type preceding diversification of head types.

The new model will bridge the gap between vertebrates such as the mouse, which live too long to get rapid results, and invertebrates that are rungs away from humans on the evolutionary ladder.

For Doug Boyer, a paleobiologist at Duke University and curator of the word's largest virtual museum of 3-D vertebrate models, these fish and frog specimens are only the beginning.

Using lamprey as a model and comparing it to what we know from other well-established vertebrate models, like mice, we can get an idea of what the ancestor to all vertebrates was like. In the context ...

To answer these questions, we investigate new emerging vertebrate models such as squamate reptiles (lizards and snakes), which display an exceptional array of regenerative capacities, life-styles, ...

A new study from the Krumlauf laboratory shows that the hindbrain of humans and jawless sea lamprey is built using a similar molecular and genetic toolkit. This discovery implies that these molecular ...