Placodes (IMAGE)

Université de Genève

Placodes

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Placodes (spots stained in dark blue by the expression of an early developmental gene) are visible before the development of hair, scales and feathers in (from left to right) the mouse, the snake, the chicken and the crocodile.

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copyright UNIGE 2016 (Tzika, Di-Poï, Milinkovitch).

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