Ossification patterns in the tetrapod limb - Conservation and divergence from morphogenetic events

Biological Reviews

Volumn 83, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 571-600

  Fröbisch, Nadia B ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Apateon; Chondrification; Limb; Ontogenetic sequence data; Ossification; Tetrapod

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBIA; APATEON; BONE DEVELOPMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FORELIMB; FROGS AND TOADS; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HINDLIMB; LIMB DEVELOPMENT; MAMMAL; MORPHOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; OSSIFICATION; PLESIOMORPHY; POLYPHYLY; REPTILE; REVIEW;

AMPHIBIANS; ANIMALS; BONE DEVELOPMENT; EVOLUTION; EXTREMITIES; FOSSILS; OSTEOGENESIS; PHYLOGENY; URODELA;

AMNIOTA; AMPHIBIA; ANURA; APATEON; DISSOROPHOIDEA; SALAMANDROIDEA; TETRAPODA;

EID: 54849413978     PISSN: 14647931     EISSN: 1469185X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-185X.2008.00055.x     Document Type: Review

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