Digit evolution in gymnophthalmid lizards
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Digit evolution in gymnophthalmid lizards.
The tetrapod limb is a highly diverse structure, and reduction or loss of this structure accounts for many of the limb phenotypes observed within species. Squamate reptiles are one of the many tetrapod lineages in which the limbs have been greatly modified from the pentadactyl generalized pattern, including different degrees of reduction in the number of limb elements to complete limblessness. ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: The International Journal of Developmental Biology
سال: 2014
ISSN: 0214-6282
DOI: 10.1387/ijdb.140255jg