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The origin and diversification of the developmental mechanisms that pattern the vertebrate head skeleton.
Developmental biology - 15 Jul 2017
Square Tyler, Jandzik David, Romášek Marek, Cerny Robert, Medeiros Daniel Meulemans
Abstract excerpt
The apparent evolvability of the vertebrate head skeleton has allowed a diverse array of shapes, sizes, and compositions of the head in order to better adapt species to their environments. This encompasses feeding, breathing, sensing, and communicating: the head skeleton somehow participated in the evolution of all these critical processes for the last 500 million years. Through evolution, present head diversity...
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