jawless
Americanadjective
Example Sentences
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As jawed vertebrates were confined to small geographic areas, they encountered ecosystems with many open roles left behind by extinct jawless species and other animals.
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Early jawless fish were likely to have used bony projections surrounding their mouths to modify the mouth's shape while they collected food.
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"We wanted to understand how the vertebrate brain evolved and if there was something unique to jawed vertebrates that was lacking in their jawless relatives."
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To examine whether RetroMyelin is present in other vertebrate species, the team searched for similar sequences within the genomes of jawed vertebrates, jawless vertebrates, and several invertebrate species.
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"Previous feeding mode hypotheses of early jawless vertebrates have mainly been based on poorly constrained inferences. But using computational palaeobiological methods, we were able to actually test and reject one of these feeding mode hypotheses."
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