Development of an evolutionarily novel s
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Loredo, Grace A. ;Brukman, Alla ;Harris, Matthew P. ;Kagle, David ;Leclair, Eliz
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Article
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2001
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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## Abstract The turtle shell, an evolutionarily novel structure, contains a bony exoskeleton that includes a dorsal carapace and a ventral plastron. The development of the carapace is dependent on the carapacial ridge (CR), a bulge in the dorsal flank that contains an ectodermal structure analogous