Ontogeny of the vertebral column of eleutherodactylus johnstonei (Anura: Eleutherodactylidae) reveals heterochronies relative to metamorphic frogs

Anatomical Record

Volumn 296, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1019-1030

  Meza joya, Fabio Leonardo ^a   Ramos pallares, Eliana Patricia ^a   Ramírez pinilla, Martha Patricia ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD INDUSTRIAL DE SANTANDER   (Colombia)

Author keywords

Developmental repatterning; Direct development; Eleutherodactylus johnstonei; Ontogenetic trajectories; Vertebral column

Indexed keywords

ANURA; ARTICLE; ELEUTHERODACTYLUS JOHNSTONEI; FEMALE; MALE; MORPHOGENESIS; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; ONTOGENY; OSSIFICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINE; SURVIVAL;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; ANURA; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; LARVA; METAMORPHOSIS, BIOLOGICAL; MORPHOGENESIS; OSTEOGENESIS; SPINE;

AMPHIBIA; ANURA; ELEUTHERODACTYLUS JOHNSTONEI;

EID: 84879322354     PISSN: 19328486     EISSN: 19328494     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ar.22705     Document Type: Article

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