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SUBMITTER: Ohazama A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2806730 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Ohazama Atsushi A Blackburn James J Porntaveetus Thantrira T Ota Masato S MS Choi Hong Y HY Johnson Eric B EB Myers Philip P Oommen Shelly S Eto Kazuhiro K Kessler John A JA Kondo Takashi T Fraser Gareth J GJ Streelman J Todd JT Pardiñas Ulyses F J UF Tucker Abigail S AS Ortiz Pablo E PE Charles Cyril C Viriot Laurent L Herz Joachim J Sharpe Paul T PT
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20091214 1
Changes in tooth shape have played a major role in vertebrate evolution with modification of dentition allowing an organism to adapt to new feeding strategies. The current view is that molar teeth evolved from simple conical teeth, similar to canines, by progressive addition of extra "cones" to form progressively complex multicuspid crowns. Mammalian incisors, however, are neither conical nor multicuspid, and their evolution is unclear. We show that hypomorphic mutation of a cell surface recepto ...[more]