Opercular development and ontogenetic re-organization in a direct-developing frog

Development Genes and Evolution

Volumn 210, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 377-381

  Callery, Elizabeth M ^a   Elinson, Richard P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Direct development; Eleutherodactylus; Frog; Larva; Opercular fold

Indexed keywords

THYROID HORMONE;

ARTICLE; DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO; FORELIMB; FROG; LIFE CYCLE; NONHUMAN; ONTOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; ANURA; BODY PATTERNING; DERMIS; EVOLUTION; EXTREMITIES; LARVA; LIMB BUD; METAMORPHOSIS, BIOLOGICAL; MORPHOGENESIS; THYROID HORMONES;

ANURA; ELEUTHERODACTYLUS COQUI; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0033935763     PISSN: 0949944X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004270000070     Document Type: Article

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