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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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Elsevier
2015-05-01
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Series: | Cell Reports |
Online Access: | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2211124715003551 |