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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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| Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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BioMed Central
2017
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| 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 |