A Curriculum Vitae of Teeth: Evolution, Generation, Regeneration
<p>The ancestor of recent vertebrate teeth was a tooth-like structure on the outer body surface of jawless fishes. Over the course of 500,000,000 years of evolution, many of those structures migrated into the mouth cavity. In addition, the total number of teeth per dentition generally decrease...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Ivyspring International Publisher
2009-01-01
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Series: | International Journal of Biological Sciences |
Online Access: | http://www.biolsci.org/v05p0226.htm |