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Anatomical and histological analyses reveal that tail repair is coupled with regrowth in wild-caught, juvenile American alligators (Alligator mississippiensis)

Reptiles are the only amniotes that maintain the capacity to regenerate appendages. This study presents the first anatomical and histological evidence of tail repair with regrowth in an archosaur, the American alligator. The regrown alligator tails constituted approximately 6–18% of the total body l...

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Autores principales: Xu, Cindy, Palade, Joanna, Fisher, Rebecca E., Smith, Cameron I., Clark, Andrew R., Sampson, Samuel, Bourgeois, Russell, Rawls, Alan, Elsey, Ruth M., Wilson-Rawls, Jeanne, Kusumi, Kenro
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7674433/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33208803
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-77052-8