The ancestor of sharks and rays laid eggs, but ancestral state reconstructions need empirically supported traits and transparent reporting: a comment on Katona et al. (2023)

2025/03/29 by Daniel F. Hughes, Daniel G. Blackburn · 1 voice
Earth and Planetary Sciences · Environmental Science · #Fish Ecology and Management Studies #Ichthyology and Marine Biology #Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology

paper · doi:10.1093/jeb/voaf020

openalex publication_date 2025/03/29 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/22

Abstract

We recently published a study in Biological Reviews that examined the evolution of reproductive modes in chondrichthyan fishes using ancestral state recons

Citations

• Detecting Hidden Diversification Shifts in Models of Trait-Dependent Speciation and Extinction

Discussions

• A comment on Katona et al. (2023): The ancestor of sharks and rays laid eggs, but ancestral state reconstructions need empirically supported traits and transparent reporting. Hughes and Blackburn: [bsky, 7 points, 0 comments]

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