Hen's teeth with enamel cap: from dream to impossibility
<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>The ability to form teeth was lost in an ancestor of all modern birds, approximately 100-80 million years ago. However, experiments in chicken have revealed that the oral epithelium can respond to inductive signals from mouse mesench...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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BMC
2008-09-01
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| Series: | BMC Evolutionary Biology |
| Online Access: | http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2148/8/246 |