Link to Pubmed [PMID] – 27458918
Link to DOI – 10.1016/j.cub.2016.05.062
Curr Biol 2016 Jul; 26(14): R685-8
Our skeletons evolved from cartilaginous tissue, but it remains a mystery how cartilage itself first arose in evolution. Characterization of cartilage in cuttlefish and horseshoe crabs reveals surprising commonalities with chordate chondrocytes, suggesting a common evolutionary origin.