The development of a biological novelty: A different way to make appendages as revealed in the snout of the star-nosed mole Condylura cristata

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 202, Issue 20, 1999, Pages 2719-2726

  Catania, Kenneth C ^a   Northcutt, R Glenn ^b   Kaas, Jon H ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Condylura cristata; Evolution; Homology; Ontogeny; Phylogeny; Recapitulation; Star nosed mole

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EPIDERMIS; EVOLUTION; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HISTOLOGY; INNERVATION; MESODERM; METABOLISM; MOLE (INSECTIVORA); MORPHOGENESIS; NEWBORN; NOSE; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; EMBRYONIC AND FETAL DEVELOPMENT; EPIDERMIS; EVOLUTION; MESODERM; MOLES; MORPHOGENESIS; NOSE;

ANIMALIA; CONDYLURA CRISTATA; MAMMALIA; SCAPANUS TOWNSENDII; TETRAPODA;

EID: 0033213475     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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