Article
Development of the clavicles in birds and mammals.
The Journal of experimental zoology - 15 Feb 2001
Hall B K
Abstract excerpt
Clavicles (collar bones) are variably present in mammals. Furculae (wishbones)--which may or may not be homologous with clavicles--are variably present and/or fused in birds and present in theropod dinosaurs. In this overview the development of clavicles and furculae is discussed with special attention to modes of skeletogenesis (whether intramembranous or endochondral), numbers of centres of ossification (one in...
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