Time, pattern, and heterochrony: A study of hyperphalangy in the dolphin embryo flipper

Evolution and Development

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 435-444

  Richardson, Michael K ^a   Oelschläger, Helmut H A ^b  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOLPHIN;

ANIMAL; ARM MALFORMATION; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DOLPHIN; ECTODERM; LIMB BUD; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT;

ANIMALS; DOLPHINS; ECTODERM; LIMB BUD; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; UPPER EXTREMITY DEFORMITIES, CONGENITAL;

ANIMALIA; CETACEA; CORYPHAENIDAE; MAMMALIA; REPTILIA; STENELLA (CETACEA); STENELLA ATTENUATA;

EID: 0036860590     PISSN: 1520541X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1525-142X.2002.02032.x     Document Type: Article

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