… Our observations provide support for the established hypothesis that the vertebrate
dermal (exo-) skeleton and endoskeleton evolved as distinct structures and remain distinct. …

Zebrafish are teleosts (bony fish) that share with mammals a common ancestor belonging to
the phylum Osteichthyes, from which their endoskeletal systems have been inherited. Indeed…

… Bernard and Pease observed spherulitic mineral formations, termed “bone nodules”, ranging
from 150 nm to 750 nm in size, originating from coalescing calcification sites in the osteoid …

… mechanisms—as endoskeletal appendages in chondrichthyans … hexagonal plates that form
the calcified shell of the skeletal … of the tesserae indicate that calcification of the cartilaginous …

… critically involved in the calcification process by providing an … expressed in the calcifying
primary mesenchymal cells (PMCs… ) to regenerate their calcitic endoskeleton. Skeleton growth …

Trace elements and stable isotope ratios in otoliths have been used as proxies for the
migration history of teleosts; however, their application in oceanic fishes remains limited. This …

… Bone is a dynamic organ of the endoskeleton, playing an important role in structural integrity…
The cartilage then becomes calcified, and the provisional calcified cartilage is subsequently …

… taxonomic class of fish characterized by the presence of a bony endoskeleton. … protein of
the mineralized skeleton and teeth of vertebrates: endochondral and membrane bone, calcified …

… and dentin matrices, which is performed by proteins often well-known from endoskeletal
mineralization (bone or cartilage), revealing ancestral aspects of the biomineralization process. …

… use SOM and not the entire organic matrix, that we form calcite and not aragonite, and that
the experimental approach is far from the biological process of calcification, which is still not …