Comparative study of the shell development of hard- and soft-shelled turtles

Journal of Anatomy

Volumn 225, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 60-70

  Nagashima, Hiroshi ^a   Shibata, Masahiro ^a   Taniguchi, Mari ^b,c   Ueno, Shintaro ^b,c   Kamezaki, Naoki ^b,c   Sato, Noboru ^a  

^a NIIGATA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICAL AND DENTAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b Suma Aqualife Park   (Japan)

^c Sea Turtle Association of Japan   (Japan)

Author keywords

Carapace; Marker genes; Neural crest; Plastron; Turtles

Indexed keywords

EPITOPE; HNK 1 EPITOPE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; CD57 ANTIGEN; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR; RNA; RNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; WNT PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL SHELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BONE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DERMAL BONE; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; EMBRYO; GENE EXPRESSION; MORPHOGENESIS; NEURAL CREST; NONHUMAN; PRIMORDIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKELETON; TURTLE; WNT SIGNALING PATHWAY; ANIMAL; BONE DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYOLOGY; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY;

TESTUDINES; TRIONYCHIDAE;

ANIMAL SHELLS; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, CD57; BONE AND BONES; BONE DEVELOPMENT; EPITOPES; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTORS; NEURAL CREST; RNA; TURTLES; WNT PROTEINS;

EID: 84902242392     PISSN: 00218782     EISSN: 14697580     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/joa.12189     Document Type: Article

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