Hox code in embryos of Chinese soft-shel
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Yoshie Kawashima Ohya; Shigehiro Kuraku; Shigeru Kuratani
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Article
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2005
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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Turtles have the most unusual body plan of the amniotes, with a dorsal shell consisting of modified ribs. Because this morphological change in the ribs can be described as an axial-level specific alteration, the evolution of the turtle carapace should depend on changes in the Hox code. To identify t