Morphological association between muscle attachments and ossification sites in the late cartilaginous skull of tuatara embryos
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DOI: 10.1002/jmor.21474
Abstract: During development, the embryonic cartilaginous skull in most vertebrates is partially replaced by bones with endochondral and perichondral ossifications. Muscle attachments are thought to influence the patterns of ossification and, hence, the differentiation of the… read more here.
Keywords: muscle; ossification; muscle attachments; cartilaginous skull ... See more keywords