Early Lens Ablation Causes Dramatic Long-Term Effects on the Shape of Bones in the Craniofacial Skeleton of Astyanax mexicanus

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2012, Pages

  Dufton, Megan ^a,b   Hall, Brian K ^a   Franz Odendaal, Tamara A ^b  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MOUNT SAINT VINCENT UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASTYANAX MEXICANUS; BONE DEVELOPMENT; BONE STRUCTURE; CALVARIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRANIOFACIAL DEVELOPMENT; CRANIOFACIAL MORPHOLOGY; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; EMBRYO; ENUCLEATION; EYE DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; FISH; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MORPHOMETRICS; NONHUMAN; ONTOGENY; ORBIT; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; SKULL DEVELOPMENT; TASTE BUD;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BLINDNESS; CHARACIDAE; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; FEMALE; JAW; LENS, CRYSTALLINE; MALE; MORPHOGENESIS; ORBIT; TASTE BUDS; TASTE PERCEPTION; TIME FACTORS; VISION, OCULAR;

AMBLYOPSIDAE; ASTYANAX FASCIATUS MEXICANUS; ASTYANAX MEXICANUS;

EID: 84870624365     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0050308     Document Type: Article

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