Generating, growing and transforming skeletal shape: Insights from amphibian pharyngeal arch cartilages

BioEssays

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 287-299

  Rose, Christopher ^a  

^a JAMES MADISON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Amphibian; Cartilage growth; Cartilage shape; Metamorphosis; Skeletal development

Indexed keywords

HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; THYROID HORMONE;

AMPHIBIA; BONE DEVELOPMENT; BONE GROWTH; BREATHING; CARTILAGE; CELL FUNCTION; CELL GROWTH; CELL LEVEL; CELL MIGRATION; CELL SHAPE; CELL TRANSFORMATION; CYTOSKELETON; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FEEDING; FROG; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; METAMORPHOSIS; NEURAL CREST CELL; NONHUMAN; PHARYNX; PRESERVATION; REVIEW; SALAMANDER; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

AMPHIBIANS; ANIMALS; BRANCHIAL REGION; CARTILAGE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HUMANS; LARVA; METAMORPHOSIS, BIOLOGICAL;

AMPHIBIA; ANURA; SALAMANDROIDEA;

EID: 65349096729     PISSN: 02659247     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bies.200800059     Document Type: Review

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