Molecular development of fibular reduction in birds and its evolution from dinosaurs

Birds have a distally reduced, splinter‐like fibula that is shorter than the tibia. In embryonic development, both skeletal elements start out with similar lengths. We examined molecular markers of cartilage differentiation in chicken embryos. We found that the distal end of the fibula expresses Ind...

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Autores principales: Botelho, João Francisco, Smith‐Paredes, Daniel, Soto‐Acuña, Sergio, O'Connor, Jingmai, Palma, Verónica, Vargas, Alexander O.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5069580/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26888088
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/evo.12882

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5069580/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26888088
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/evo.12882

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