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Rapid and repeated limb loss in a clade of scincid lizards

BACKGROUND: The Australian scincid clade Lerista provides perhaps the best available model for studying limb reduction in squamates (lizards and snakes), comprising more than 75 species displaying a remarkable variety of digit configurations, from pentadactyl to entirely limbless conditions. We inve...

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Main Authors: Skinner, Adam, Lee, Michael SY, Hutchinson, Mark N
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: BioMed Central 2008
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2596130/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19014443
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2148-8-310
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