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Bone morphometrics and tetracycline marking patterns in young growing American alligators (Alligator
E D Roberts1, C L Matlock, T Joanen
1Department of Veterinary Pathology, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge 70803.
Journal of Wildlife Diseases
|January 1, 1988
Abstract:
Nine young American alligators (Alligator mississippiensis) were injected at monthly intervals with tetracycline to determine the bone apposition rate and the resorption patterns over a 3-mo period. The periosteal apposition rate increased progressively over the 3-mo period from 2.99 microns/day to 5.94 microns/day. Endosteal apposition rate was much slower with incomplete tetracycline lines being observed on the endosteum. This suggests that most modeling-resorptive activities occur on the endosteal envelope.

