Developmental basis of limb length in rodents: Evidence for multiple divisions of labor in mechanisms of endochondral bone growth

Evolution and Development

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 15-28

  Rolian, Campbell ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT; BODY SIZE; BONE; GROWTH RATE; LIMB; POPULATION SIZE; RODENT;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BODY SIZE; CARTILAGE CELL; CELL DIVISION; CELL PROLIFERATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CYTOLOGY; EVOLUTION; GERBIL; GROWTH PLATE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HISTOLOGY; LIMB; MOUSE; PHENOTYPE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; BODY SIZE; CELL DIVISION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CHONDROCYTES; EVOLUTION; EXTREMITIES; GERBILLINAE; GROWTH PLATE; MICE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHENOTYPE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

GERBILLINAE; MAMMALIA; MERIONES UNGUICULATUS; MUS MUSCULUS; RODENTIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 37749013733     PISSN: 1520541X     EISSN: 1525142X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1525-142X.2008.00211.x     Document Type: Article

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