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Asymmetry of mandibular dentition is associated with dietary specialization in snail-eating snakes

BACKGROUND: In vertebrates, the left-and-right pairs of homologous organs are generally present in equal numbers. A remarkable exception is snail-eating snakes in the family Pareidae: almost all the pareid snakes have much more teeth on the right mandible than on the left for functional specializati...

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Publicado en:PeerJ
Autor principal: Hoso, Masaki
Formato: Artigo
Lenguaje:Inglês
Publicado: PeerJ Inc. 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5337109/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28265502
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3011
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