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One hundred million years of skin feeding? Extended parental care in a Neotropical caecilian (Amphibia: Gymnophiona)
Maternal dermatophagy, the eating of maternal skin by offspring, is an unusual form of parental investment involving co-evolved specializations of both maternal skin and offspring dentition, which has been recently discovered in an African caecilian amphibian. Here we report the discovery of this fo...
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| Idioma: | Inglês |
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The Royal Society
2008
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| Acceso en liña: | https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2610157/ https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18547909 https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2008.0217 |
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