Latimeria chalumnae

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Noun1.Latimeria chalumnae - fish thought to have been extinct since the Cretaceous period but found in 1938 off the coast of AfricaLatimeria chalumnae - fish thought to have been extinct since the Cretaceous period but found in 1938 off the coast of Africa
coelacanth
crossopterygian, lobefin, lobe-finned fish - any fish of the order Crossopterygii; most known only in fossil form
genus Latimeria, Latimeria - type genus of the Latimeridae: coelacanth
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The Tas2r gene repertoires of vertebrates diverge tremendously in size, from 10 pseudogenes in the dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) (Lei et al., 2015) to 80 in the Latimeria chalumnae (Syed and Korsching, 2014).
The Bitter Taste Receptor Genes of the Raccoon Dog (Nyctereutes procyonoides)
The oldest orthologs of AQP2, -5, and -6 are currently found in the coelacanth (Latimeria chalumnae) with three aqp2-like paralogs (aqp2a, -2b, and -2c, Fig.
Evolution and functional diversity of aquaporins
In the present study, the higher bootstrap values of the branches of avian with reptiles (bootstrap value 96); and the mammals, avians, reptiles with that of other species like, Sarcophilus harrisii (Tasmanian devil, a carnivorous marsupial), Xenopus laevis (African clawed frog), Western clawed frog, Latimeria chalumnae (West Indian Ocean coelacanth), C-tenopharyn godonidella (Grass carp), zebra fish, Hymenolepis microstoma (Rodent tapeworm)) (bootstrap value 98) clearly signify the stability of branching pattern.
Biocomputational characterization and evolutionary analysis of bubaline Dicer1 enzyme
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