Dissociation of somatic growth from segmentation drives gigantism in snakes

Biology Letters

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 296-298

  Head, Jason J ^a   Polly, P David ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dissociation; Gigantism; Heterochrony; Pleomerism; Snakes; Somitogenesis

Indexed keywords

BODY SIZE; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; GROWTH; HETEROCHRONY (ONTOGENY); MATURATION; SNAKE; TAXONOMY;

ARTICLE; BODY GROWTH; BONE MATURATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GIGANTISM; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SNAKE; ANIMAL; BODY SIZE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EVOLUTION; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MORPHOGENESIS; MORPHOMETRICS; PHYSIOLOGY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPINE;

BOIDAE; PYTHONIDAE; RHINOTYPHLOPS; SERPENTES; TYPHLOPIDAE; TYPHLOPS; VERTEBRATA;

ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; BODY SIZE; BODY WEIGHTS AND MEASURES; EVOLUTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SNAKES; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SPINE;

EID: 38449087827     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2007.0069     Document Type: Article

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