Continuously Growing Rodent Molars Result from a Predictable Quantitative Evolutionary Change over 50 Million Years

The fossil record is widely informative about evolution, but fossils are not systematically used to study the evolution of stem-cell-driven renewal. Here, we examined evolution of the continuous growth (hypselodonty) of rodent molar teeth, which is fuelled by the presence of dental stem cells. We st...

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Main Authors: Vagan Tapaltsyan, Jussi T. Eronen, A. Michelle Lawing, Amnon Sharir, Christine Janis, Jukka Jernvall, Ophir D. Klein
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2015-05-01
Series:Cell Reports
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2211124715003551