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The Evolution of HoxD-11 Expression in the Bird Wing: Insights from Alligator mississippiensis
BACKGROUND: Comparative morphology identifies the digits of the wing of birds as 1,2 and 3, but they develop at embryological positions that become digits 2, 3 and 4 in other amniotes. A hypothesis to explain this is that a homeotic frame shift of digital identity occurred in the evolution of the bi...
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Public Library of Science
2008
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2553264/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18833328 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0003325 |