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Rapid and repeated limb loss in a clade of scincid lizards
BACKGROUND: The Australian scincid clade Lerista provides perhaps the best available model for studying limb reduction in squamates (lizards and snakes), comprising more than 75 species displaying a remarkable variety of digit configurations, from pentadactyl to entirely limbless conditions. We inve...
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BioMed Central
2008
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2596130/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19014443 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2148-8-310 |