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A universal power law for modelling the growth and form of teeth, claws, horns, thorns, beaks, and shells

BACKGROUND: A major goal of evolutionary developmental biology is to discover general models and mechanisms that create the phenotypes of organisms. However, universal models of such fundamental growth and form are rare, presumably due to the limited number of physical laws and biological processes...

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Autores principales: Evans, Alistair R., Pollock, Tahlia I., Cleuren, Silke G. C., Parker, William M. G., Richards, Hazel L., Garland, Kathleen L. S., Fitzgerald, Erich M. G., Wilson, Tim E., Hocking, David P., Adams, Justin W.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8008625/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33781258
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12915-021-00990-w