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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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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BMC
2024-09-01
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Series: | Frontiers in Zoology |
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Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1186/s12983-024-00544-0 |