Breaking evolutionary and pleiotropic constraints in mammals: On sloths, manatees and homeotic mutations

BACKGROUND: Mammals as a rule have seven cervical vertebrae, except for sloths and manatees. Bateson proposed that the change in the number of cervical vertebrae in sloths is due to homeotic transformations. A recent hypothesis proposes that the number of cervical vertebrae in sloths is unchanged an...

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Autores principales: Varela-Lasheras, Irma, Bakker, Alexander J, van der Mije, Steven D, Metz, Johan AJ, van Alphen, Joris, Galis, Frietson
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2011
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Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3120709/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21548920
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/2041-9139-2-11

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3120709/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21548920
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/2041-9139-2-11

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