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Thyroid hormone responsive QTL and the evolution of paedomorphic salamanders.
Heredity - 1 Nov 2012
Voss S R, Kump D K, Walker J A, Shaffer H B, Voss G J
Abstract excerpt
The transformation of ancestral phenotypes into novel traits is poorly understood for many examples of evolutionary novelty. Ancestrally, salamanders have a biphasic life cycle with an aquatic larval stage, a brief and pronounced metamorphosis, followed by a terrestrial adult stage. Repeatedly du...
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