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Digit reduction: via repatterning or developmental arrest?
Author(s) -
Galis Frietson,
Van Alphen Jacques J. M.,
Metz Johan A. J.
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
evolution and development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.651
H-Index - 78
eISSN - 1525-142X
pISSN - 1520-541X
DOI - 10.1046/j.1525-142x.2002.02013.x
Subject(s) - biology
Hamrick (2002) contested the conclusion of our recent articleon evolutionary constraints on digit numbers that in tetrapodslimb reduction usually occurs via arrest of the initial develop-ment followed by degeneration (Galis et al 2001). Firstly, weagree with Hamrick that we unfortunately illustrated this phe- nomenon with the wrong figure: the digits in the hand of