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Hox Genes Regulate Digit Patterning by Controlling the Wavelength of a Turing-Type Mechanism

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Developmental basis of mammalian digit reduction: a case study in pigs

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Toe function and dynamic pressure distribution in ostrich locomotion

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Defining the Earliest Transcriptional Steps of Chondrogenic Progenitor Specification during the Formation of the Digits in the Embryonic Limb

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Embryonic development of the emu, Dromaius novaehollandiae

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Shared developmental mechanisms pattern the vertebrate gill arch and paired fin skeletons

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Uncoupling Sonic Hedgehog Control of Pattern and Expansion of the Developing Limb Bud

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Bipedal locomotion in ratites (Paleognatiform): examples of cursorial birds

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