Development of the Hearts of Lizards and Snakes and Perspectives to Cardiac Evolution

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Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Jensen, Bjarke ^a,b   van den Berg, Gert ^b   van den Doel, Rick ^b   Oostra, Roelof Jan ^b   Wang, Tobias ^a   Moorman, Antoon F M ^b  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ATRIOVENTRICULAR CANAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; EMBRYO; EVOLUTIONARY DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; HEART ATRIOVENTRICULAR VALVE; HEART ATRIUM SEPTUM; HEART DEVELOPMENT; HEART VENTRICLE; HEART VOLUME; LIZARD; NONHUMAN; SNAKE; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; COLUBRIDAE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EMBRYOLOGY; EVOLUTION; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HEART; HEART ATRIUM; ORGAN SIZE;

AMNIOTA; ANOLIS; ANOLIS SAGREI; AVES; HYDROSAURUS; MAMMALIA; PANTHEROPHIS GUTTATUS; REPTILIA; SERPENTES; SQUAMATA; VERTEBRATA;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; COLUBRIDAE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEART; HEART ATRIA; HEART VENTRICLES; LIZARDS; MODELS, ANATOMIC; ORGAN SIZE;

EID: 84878769229     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0063651     Document Type: Article

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