Pentadactyl ground state of the manus of Alligator mississippiensis and insights into the evolution of digital reduction in Archosauria

Journal of Experimental Zoology Part B: Molecular and Developmental Evolution

Volumn 314 B, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 571-579

  Larsson, Hans C E ^a   Heppleston, Audrey C ^a   Elsey, Ruth M ^b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b LOUISIANA DEPARTMENT OF WILDLIFE AND FISHERIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIRD; CROCODILIAN; EVOLUTION; FORELIMB; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LIMB; LIMB BUD; MORPHOGENESIS;

ALLIGATORS AND CROCODILES; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BIRDS; BODY PATTERNING; EXTREMITIES; FORELIMB; LIMB BUDS;

ALLIGATOR; ALLIGATOR MISSISSIPPIENSIS; ARCHOSAURIA; AVES; CROCODYLIDAE (ALL CROCODILES); TETRAPODA;

EID: 79251473389     PISSN: 15525007     EISSN: 15525015     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jez.b.21362     Document Type: Article

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