Python (IMAGE)

Harvard Medical School

Python

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This is a python embryo at 11 days after oviposition (egglaying). The right hemipenis (genitalia) bud and vestigial limb-bud can be seen near the tail end of the embryo, in the center of the tail 'spiral'. (two white 'blobs')

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Image by Patrick Tschopp

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