Getting to the root of scales, feather and hair: As deep as odontodes?
Abstract
While every jawed vertebrate, or its recent ancestor, possesses teeth, skin appendages are characteristic of the living clades: skin denticles (odontodes) in chondrichthyans, dermal scales in teleosts, ducted multicellular glands in amphibians, epidermal scales in squamates, feathers in birds and hair-gland complexes in mammals, all of them showing a dense periodic patterning. While the odontode origin of teleost scales is generally accepted,...
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Title
Getting to the root of scales, feather and hair: As deep as odontodes?
Published Date
Aug 25, 2017
Journal
Volume
28
Issue
4
Pages
503 - 508
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