Evolutionary developmental perspective for the origin of turtles: The folding theory for the shell based on the developmental nature of the carapacial ridge

Evolution and Development

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1-14

  Kuratani, Shigeru ^a   Kuraku, Shigehiro ^b   Nagashima, Hiroshi ^a  

^a RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BODY SHAPE; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; EVOLUTIONARY THEORY; EXOSKELETON; FOSSIL RECORD; GROWTH RATE; MORPHOLOGY; SHELL; TURTLE;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL EMBRYO; ARTICLE; BONE DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EVOLUTION; HISTOLOGY; MORPHOGENESIS; MUSCLE DEVELOPMENT; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; TURTLE;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BODY PATTERNING; BONE DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; MUSCLE DEVELOPMENT; TURTLES;

TESTUDINES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 78650934317     PISSN: 1520541X     EISSN: 1525142X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1525-142X.2010.00451.x     Document Type: Article

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