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Evolution and development of facial bone morphology in threespine sticklebacks.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 19 Apr 2005
Kimmel Charles B, Ullmann Bonnie, Walker Charline, Wilson Catherine, Currey Mark, Phillips Patrick C, Bell Michael A, Postlethwait John H, Cresko William A
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How do developmental mechanisms evolve to control changing skeletal morphology, the shapes and sizes of individual bones? We address this question with studies of the opercle (OP), a large facial bone that has undergone marked morphological evolution in the ray-finned fish. Attributes for developmental analysis motivated us to examine how OP shape and size evolve and develop in threespine sticklebacks, a model...
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