On the difficulty of increasing dental complexity

Nature

Volumn 483, Issue 7389, 2012, Pages 324-327

  Harjunmaa, Enni ^a   Kallonen, Aki ^b   Voutilainen, Maria ^a   Hämäläinen, Keijo ^b   Mikkola, Marja L ^a   Jernvall, Jukka ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVIN A; ECTODYSPLASIN A; SONIC HEDGEHOG PROTEIN;

BIOCHEMISTRY; DENTITION; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GENETICALLY MODIFIED ORGANISM; MORPHOLOGY; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN; RODENT; SIGNALING;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; IN VITRO STUDY; MALE; MOUSE; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TOOTH; TOOTH DEVELOPMENT; TOOTH SIZE;

ACTIVINS; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; ECTODYSPLASINS; HEDGEHOG PROTEINS; MICE; MOLAR; MUTATION; ORGAN CULTURE TECHNIQUES; PHENOTYPE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ERINACEIDAE; MAMMALIA; MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 84858290255     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature10876     Document Type: Article

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