Mammary glands and feathers: Comparing two skin appendages which help define novel classes during vertebrate evolution

Seminars in Cell and Developmental Biology

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 255-266

  Widelitz, Randall B ^a   Veltmaat, Jacqueline M ^b   Mayer, Julie Ann ^a   Foley, John ^c   Chuong, Cheng Ming ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR AND CELL BIOLOGY   (Singapore)

^c INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Branching morphogenesis; Breast cancer; Development; Ectodermal organ; Evolutionary novelty

Indexed keywords

SEX HORMONE;

ANIMAL ANATOMY; BIRD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECTODERM; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EVOLUTION; EVOLUTIONARY DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; FEATHER; HUMAN; MAMMAL; MAMMARY GLAND; MORPHOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; REGENERATION; REVIEW; SEXUAL SELECTION; SKIN APPENDAGE; SKIN FUNCTION; SKIN STRUCTURE; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; VERTEBRATE;

AVES; MAMMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 34249094576     PISSN: 10849521     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.semcdb.2007.02.005     Document Type: Review

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