Goodbye, Alex!
Our research assistant, Alex Riley, is leaving us to pursue his career as a science writer. Thanks for all your hard work, Alex, and best of luck!
Blogs
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The Epic History of Sharks
Charlie Underwood provides comment for this BBC article!
http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20151003-the-epic-history-of-sharks
New paper published in Proceedings B
Our new paper has just been published!
Early development of rostrum saw-teeth in a fossil ray tests classical theories of the evolution of vertebrate dentitions
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2015.1628
Science News
And our new sawshark paper was featured in Science News!
http://news.sciencemag.org/biology/2015/09/sawfish-teeth-didn-t-pave-way...
New paper on sawshark/sawfish rostrum dentitions
The team has a new paper just published in Royal Society Open Science! http://rsos.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/2/9/150189
Early Vertebrates/Lower Vertebrates symposium, Melbourne
A fantastic meeting organised by Kate Trinajstic, with Moya Smith giving a talk on the enigmatic sawfish, Schizorhiza! The conference dinner at Melbourne Aquarium was a real highight.
Sea Saws at Nature Live (17.06.15)
From the sawfish swimming in the oceans today to some of those species that went extinct at the end of the Cretaceous Period, I presented some of our recent work at the Natural History Museum in London. My next Nature Live is scheduled for September 13th 2015.
Interdisciplinary Approaches in Fish Skeletal Biology (IAFSB) 4th Conference: April 27 to 30 2015, Tavira, Algarve, Portugal
Our group will be very well represented at the upcoming IAFSB in Portugal, looking forward to it!
Development and Evolution of Dentition Pattern and Tooth Order in the Skates And Rays (Batoidea; Chondrichthyes)
Our new paper in PLoS has been published!
Development and Evolution of Dentition Pattern and Tooth Order in the Skates And Rays (Batoidea; Chondrichthyes)
Charlie J. Underwood , Zerina Johanson, Monique Welten, Brian Metscher, Liam J. Rasch, Gareth J. Fraser, Moya Meredith Smith
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0122553
Paddlefish paper in the news
Our research into conserved genetic pathways in tooth patterning and development now encompasses one of the most basal bony fish -- the american paddlefish. Both sonic hedgehog and Bmp4 play important roles in odontogenesis in this species.
News article:
http://www.kcl.ac.uk/dentistry/newsevents/news/newsrecords/2015/mar/New-...