The endoskeletal origin of the turtle carapace

Nature Communications

Volumn 4, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Hirasawa, Tatsuya ^a   Nagashima, Hiroshi ^b   Kuratani, Shigeru ^a  

^a RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research   (Japan)

^b NIIGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN;

EMBRYO; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; FOSSIL; MORPHOLOGY; MUSCLE; PALEONTOLOGY; SHELL; SKELETON; TURTLE;

ANIMAL SHELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONNECTIVE TISSUE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DERMIS; DIAPSID; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EXOSKELETON; HATCHING; INTEGUMENT; INTERCOSTAL MUSCLE; MORPHOGENESIS; MORPHOLOGY; NEUROECTODERM; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; RIB; TETRAPOD; TISSUE INTERACTION; TURTLE;

ALLIGATORS AND CROCODILES; ANIMAL SHELLS; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BODY PATTERNING; CHICK EMBRYO; CHICKENS; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; FOSSILS; PHYLOGENY; SPINE; TURTLES;

EID: 84880297073     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms3107     Document Type: Article

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