Skeletal development in sloths and the evolution of mammalian vertebral patterning

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 107, Issue 44, 2010, Pages 18903-18908

  Hautier, Lionel ^a   Weisbecker, Vera ^a   Sánchez Villagra, Marcelo R ^b   Goswami, Anjali ^c   Asher, Robert J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b PALÄONTOLOGISCHES INSTITUT UND MUSEUM   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Constraint; Heterochrony; Ontogeny; Vertebrae; Xenarthra

Indexed keywords

BONE DEVELOPMENT; BONE MALFORMATION; CERVICAL SPINE; CONFERENCE PAPER; MESODERM; NONHUMAN; OSTEOGENESIS IMPERFECTA; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SLOTH;

BRADYPODIDAE; MAMMALIA; SLOTHS; XENARTHRA;

EID: 78650500630     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1010335107     Document Type: Article

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