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SUBMITTER: Bloomquist RF
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4640805 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Bloomquist Ryan F RF Parnell Nicholas F NF Phillips Kristine A KA Fowler Teresa E TE Yu Tian Y TY Sharpe Paul T PT Streelman J Todd JT
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20151019 44
Teeth and taste buds are iteratively patterned structures that line the oro-pharynx of vertebrates. Biologists do not fully understand how teeth and taste buds develop from undifferentiated epithelium or how variation in organ density is regulated. These organs are typically studied independently because of their separate anatomical location in mammals: teeth on the jaw margin and taste buds on the tongue. However, in many aquatic animals like bony fishes, teeth and taste buds are colocalized on ...[more]