Explosive regeneration and anamorphic development of legs in the house centipede Scutigera coleoptrata

Abstract Background Regenerating legs is advantageous for arthropods as their appendages exhibit crucial functional specializations. Many arthropods possess a ‘preferred breakage point’, where the appendage is most likely to break and where regeneration likely to occur, however, different taxa exhib...

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Main Authors: Iulia Barutia, Andy Sombke
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2024-09-01
Series:Frontiers in Zoology
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s12983-024-00544-0