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Criswell, K.E. & Roberts, L.E. & Koo, E.T. & Head, J.J. & Gillis, J.A. (2021)
hox gene expression predicts tetrapod-like axial regionalization in the skate, Leucoraja erinacea. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 118(51), Article e2114563118
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Criswell, K.E. & Gillis, J.A. (2020)
Resegmentation is an ancestral feature of the gnathostome vertebral skeleton. eLife, 9, Article e51696
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Coates, M.I. & Finarelli, J.A. & Sansom, I.J. & Andreev, P.S. & Criswell, K.E. & Tietjen, K. & Rivers, M.L. & La Riviere, P.J. (2018)
An early chondrichthyan and the evolutionary assembly of a shark body plan. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B, 285(1870), Article 20172418
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Coates, M.I. & Gess, R.W. & Finarelli, J.A. & Criswell, K.E. & Tietjen, K. (2017)
A symmoriiform chondrichthyan braincase and the origin of chimaeroid fishes. Nature, 541(7636), 208–211
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Criswell, K.E. & Coates, M.I. & Gillis, J.A. (2017)
Embryonic development of the axial column in the little skate, Leucoraja erinacea. Journal of Morphology, 278(3), 300–320
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Gillis, J.A. & Alsema, E.C. & Criswell, K.E. (2017)
Trunk neural crest origin of dermal denticles in a cartilaginous fish. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 114(50), 13200–13205
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Criswell, K.E. & Finarelli, J.A. & Coates, M.I. (2014)
Gills, structure, and feeding mode: specialization in a remarkably early gnathostome [Abstract]. Integrative and Comparative Biology: 54(IS Suppl. 1): E46

Criswell, K.E. & Finarelli, J.A. & Friedman, M. & Garwood, R. & Coates, M. (2013)
Deltoptychius: investigating the roots of the chimaeroid cranial condition [Abstract]. Integrative and Comparative Biology: 53(Suppl. 1): E43

Criswell, K.E. & Finarelli, J.A. & Friedman, M. & Garwood, R. & Coates, M. (2012)
Deltoptychius: cranial characters and rethinking early holocephalan phylogeny [Abstract]. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 32(Suppl. 1), 81–82
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