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SUBMITTER: Marchant TW
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5462623 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Marchant Thomas W TW Johnson Edward J EJ McTeir Lynn L Johnson Craig I CI Gow Adam A Liuti Tiziana T Kuehn Dana D Svenson Karen K Bermingham Mairead L ML Drögemüller Michaela M Nussbaumer Marc M Davey Megan G MG Argyle David J DJ Powell Roger M RM Guilherme Sérgio S Lang Johann J Ter Haar Gert G Leeb Tosso T Schwarz Tobias T Mellanby Richard J RJ Clements Dylan N DN Schoenebeck Jeffrey J JJ
Current biology : CB 20170525 11
In morphological terms, "form" is used to describe an object's shape and size. In dogs, facial form is stunningly diverse. Facial retrusion, the proximodistal shortening of the snout and widening of the hard palate is common to brachycephalic dogs and is a welfare concern, as the incidence of respiratory distress and ocular trauma observed in this class of dogs is highly correlated with their skull form. Progress to identify the molecular underpinnings of facial retrusion is limited to associati ...[more]