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Abortive placode formation in the feather tract of the scaleless chicken embryo.
Developmental dynamics : an official publication of the American Association of Anatomists - 1 Nov 2007
Houghton Leslie, Lindon Catherine M, Freeman Allison, Morgan Bruce A
Abstract excerpt
The featherless phenotype of the scaleless mutant provides a model for delineating the process of feather follicle formation. Initial studies established that the mutation affects the epidermis and suggested that epidermis is unable to respond to signals from underlying dermis, or propagate a reciprocal signal. The work presented here demonstrates that scaleless epidermis does indeed respond to the initial...
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