Why is limb regeneration possible in amphibians but not in reptiles, birds, and mammals?

Evolution and Development

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 208-220

  Galis, Frietson ^a   Wagner, Günter P ^b   Jockusch, Elizabeth L ^c  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBIAN; EVOLUTION; SELF ORGANIZATION;

ANIMAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; HUMAN; LIMB; MORPHOGENESIS; PHYSIOLOGY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; REGENERATION; REVIEW; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; EVOLUTION; EXTREMITIES; HUMANS; REGENERATION; VERTEBRATES;

AMNIOTA; AMPHIBIA; ANIMALIA; AVES; MAMMALIA; REPTILIA; TETRAPODA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0141462764     PISSN: 1520541X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1525-142X.2003.03028.x     Document Type: Review

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