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English: Excerpt of figure from “From Lizard to Snake; Behind the Evolution of an Extreme Body Plan” (Woltering, 2012), showing the embryo of a snake and mouse to highlight the different in body plan. The mouse is a day 12 post fertilization embryo and the snake (Corn snake, Pantherophis guttatus), is around 2 days post ovo-positioning. The Corn snake is not a basal snake, and thus does bot exhibit hind limb bud formation.
Date
Source "From Lizard to Snake; Behind the Evolution of an Extreme Body Plan" [1]
Author Joost M Woltering

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  1. "From Lizard to Snake; Behind the Evolution of an Extreme Body Plan". Current Genomics 13 (4): 289–299. DOI : 10.2174/138920212800793302 .

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Mouse embryo 12 day post fertilization side by side with Corn Snake embryo 2 days post ovo-positioning.

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1 June 2012

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