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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Main Authors: Wilkinson, Mark, Kupfer, Alexander, Marques-Porto, Rafael, Jeffkins, Hilary, Antoniazzi, Marta M, Jared, Carlos
Format: Artigo
Sprog:Inglês
Udgivet: The Royal Society 2008
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Research Article
Online adgang: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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