Morphological, functional and evolutionary aspects of tail autotomy and regeneration in the 'living fossil' Sphenodon (Reptilia: Rhynchocephalia)

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 93, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 721-743

  Seligmann, Hervé ^a   Moravec, Jiří ^b   Werner, Yehudah L ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b DEPARTMENT OF ENTOMOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Ablation; Age effects; Brain lateralization; Developmental contrasts; Directional asymmetry; Fluctuating asymmetry; Injury rate; Intraspecific fighting; Sexual differences; Tail length

Indexed keywords

AGE; AUTONOMY; BRAIN; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; FLUCTUATING ASYMMETRY; MORPHOLOGY; MORPHOTYPE; PHYLOGENETICS; REGENERATION; REPTILE; SEX-RELATED DIFFERENCE;

REPTILIA; SPHENODON; SPHENODON GUNTHERI; SPHENODON PUNCTATUS; SPHENODONTIA; SQUAMATA;

EID: 40749159631     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: 10958312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2008.00975.x     Document Type: Article

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