Fish Skull (IMAGE)

University of Massachusetts Amherst

Fish Skull

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Pink areas are bone and blue areas are cartilage in this head skeleton of a larval fish. Craig Albertson of UMass Amherst and a colleague report on experiments that looked at how a gaping behavior, a factor in the fish larvae's developmental environment that precedes bone formation, influences later development of cranio-facial bones.

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