La pérdida de dígitos en la evolución de los arcosaurios y la interacción entre la selección y las restricciones.

Merijn A G de Bakker1, Donald A Fowler, Kelly den Oude

  • 1Department of Integrative Zoology, Institute of Biology, Leiden University, Sylvius Laboratory, Sylviusweg 72, 2333BE Leiden, the Netherlands.

Nature
|July 9, 2013
PubMed
Resumen

La pérdida evolutiva de dígitos en cocodrilos y aves revela vestigios de desarrollo que persisten mucho después de que desaparecen los dígitos adultos. Las redes genéticas conservadas en el dígito V de las extremidades posteriores contrastan con la rápida pérdida del dígito I de las alas, destacando las limitaciones del desarrollo frente a las presiones de selección.

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