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Morphology of brood pouch formation in the pot-bellied seahorse Hippocampus abdominalis

BACKGROUND: The reproductive strategies of vertebrates are diverse. Seahorses (Pisces: Syngnathidae) possess the unique characteristic of male pregnancy; i.e., males, not females, incubate embryos in a specialized structure called a ‘brood pouch’. The brood pouch is formed along the ventral midline...

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Autores principales: Kawaguchi, Mari, Okubo, Ryohei, Harada, Akari, Miyasaka, Kazuki, Takada, Kensuke, Hiroi, Junya, Yasumasu, Shigeki
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5646163/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29075513
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40851-017-0080-9