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Research interests
Promote understanding of the bio-diversity of all extant and fossil skeletal tissues, including and specializing in those of the dentition: through a research career spanning two separate fields of study; developmental biology and palaeontology.
The focus is on the evolution of dentitions and their pattern of change within phylogenies to suggest a developmental, genetic model for patterning the dentition, especially, diversity of dental morphologies in fish and how developmental modification of inherited pattern can produce novel dentitions.
In the early evolution of teeth, it was proposed to change the classic ideas and suggest that pharyngeal denticles are the source of patterning for teeth on the jaws and these rather than skin teeth are co-opted for the evolution of active predation.
Currently, undertaking research into the evolution of repair of wounds in dermal bone, using early vertebrate fossils 300 mya, where invasive dentine acts as repair tissue, with implications for stem cells to make dentine.
Research interests (short)
Promote understanding of the bio-diversity of all extant and fossil skeletal tissues, including and specialising in those of the dentition: through a unique research career spanning two separate fields of study; developmental biology and palaeontology.
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Early Silurian chondrichthyans from the Tarim Basin (Xinjiang, China)
Andreev, P. S., Zhao, W., Wang, N.-Z., Smith, M. M., Li, Q., Cui, X., Zhu, M., Sansom, I. J. & Wong, W. O. (Editor), 2020, In: PLoS ONE. 15, 2, e0228589.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Evolution of the Dentition in Holocephalans (Chondrichthyes) Through Tissue Disparity: volution of the Dentition in Holocephalans
Zerina Johanson & Underwood, C., 10 Sept 2020, In: INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY. 60, 3, p. 630-643 14 p., doi:10.1093/icba/icaa093.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Holocephalan (Chondrichthyes) dental plates with hypermineralized dentine as a substitute for missing teeth through developmental plasticity
Smith, M., Manzanares, E., Underwood, C., Healy, C., Clark, B. & Johanson, Z., 1 Jul 2020, In: JOURNAL OF FISH BIOLOGY. 97, 1, p. 16-27 12 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Growth and mineralogy in dental plates of the holocephalan Harriotta raleighana (Chondrichthyes): novel dentine and conserved patterning combine to create a unique chondrichthyan dentition
Meredith Smith, M., Underwood, C., Healy, C., Johanson, Z. & Goral, T., 12 Mar 2019, In: Zoological letters. 5, 1, 30 p., 11.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Development and evolution of tooth renewal in neoselachian sharks as a model for transformation in chondrichthyan dentitions: Neoselachian transformations from alternate replacement tooth order
Meredith Smith, M. & Johanson, Z., Jun 2018, In: Journal of Anatomy. p. 891-907 21 p., Jjoa 12796.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Open AccessFile16 Citations (Scopus)155 Downloads (Pure)
Projects
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Chondrichthyan diversity and disparity: evolutionary and developmental origins, durophagy and response to end-Devonianextinction
Meredith Smith, M. (Primary Investigator)
1/02/2016 → 31/01/2019
Project: Research
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Gnathostome dental pattern and the evolution of chondrichthyan dentitions
Watson, T. (Primary Investigator) & Meredith Smith, M. (Co-Investigator)
NERC Natural Environment Research Council
1/07/2013 → 30/06/2016
Project: Research
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Chondrichthyan dental development and the evolution of gnathostome dental patterning
Meredith Smith, M. (Primary Investigator)
2/07/2012 → 1/07/2015
Project: Research
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Building the dentition of the Australian lungfish from a stereotypic osteichthyan pattern with timing of tooth development oscillating between left and right sides in the lower jaw tooth row
Meredith Smith, M. (Primary Investigator)
2/11/2009 → 1/12/2009
Project: Research
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The enigmatic Devonian species Palaeosphondylus gunni vertebrate phylogenetic relationships and evolution of the mineralised skeleton
Meredith Smith, M. (Primary Investigator)
1/10/2009 → 30/09/2012
Project: Research
Activities
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TMD 9th Zurich . Building dentitions by regulated repeated tooth initiation
Meredith Smith, M. (Keynote/plenary speaker)
Sept 2007 → …Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in conference
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LOWER VERTEBRATES EARLY VERTEBRATES - Upsala Filling a phylogenetic gap in teeth at the margins
Meredith Smith, M. (Speaker)
Aug 2007 → …Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in conference
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ICVM8 Paris Building the marginal dentition of lungfish in a stereotypic osteichthyan pattern
Meredith Smith, M. (Speaker)
Jul 2007 → …Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in conference
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SICB Phoenix Building divergent dentitions by regulation of tooth addition
Meredith Smith, M. (Speaker)
2007 → …Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in conference
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ESEDB –Prague Developmental and evolutionary origins of a dental lamina
Meredith Smith, M. (Speaker)
Aug 2006 → …Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in conference