Histological microstructure of the claws
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Hillary C. Maddin; Sorin Musat-Marcu; Robert R. Reisz
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Article
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2007
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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## Abstract Claws are consistent components of amniote anatomy and may thus be implicated in the success of the amniote invasion of land. However, the evolutionary origin of these structures in tetrapods is unclear. Claws are present in certain extant nonβamniotes, such as __Xenopus laevis__, the A