Embryonic development of Python sebae - I: Staging criteria and macroscopic skeletal morphogenesis of the head and limbs

Zoology

Volumn 110, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 212-230

  Boughner, Julia C ^a   Buchtová, Marcela ^a   Fu, Katherine ^a   Diewert, Virginia ^a   Hallgrímsson, Benedikt ^b   Richman, Joy M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b ALBERTA ENVIRONMENT AND PARKS   (Canada)

Author keywords

African Rock Python; Cartilage; Craniofacial development; Embryo staging; Skeletogenesis

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; PYTHON SEBAE; REPTILIA;

EID: 34249309894     PISSN: 09442006     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.zool.2007.01.005     Document Type: Article

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