Morphology of the snake spectacle reflects its evolutionary adaptation and development

BACKGROUND: Covering the eye of all snakes is a transparent integumental structure known as the spectacle. In order to determine variations in spectacle thickness among species, the spectacles of 217 alcohol-preserved museum specimens of 44 species belonging to 14 different families underwent optica...

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Autores principales: Da Silva, Mari-Ann Otkjaer, Heegaard, Steffen, Wang, Tobias, Gade, Jacob Thorup, Damsgaard, Christian, Bertelsen, Mads Frost
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2017
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5562989/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28821248
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12917-017-1193-2

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5562989/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28821248
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12917-017-1193-2

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