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Asymmetry of mandibular dentition is associated with dietary specialization in snail-eating snakes
BACKGROUND: In vertebrates, the left-and-right pairs of homologous organs are generally present in equal numbers. A remarkable exception is snail-eating snakes in the family Pareidae: almost all the pareid snakes have much more teeth on the right mandible than on the left for functional specializati...
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| Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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PeerJ Inc.
2017
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5337109/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28265502 http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3011 |