Eraqi R Khannoon, Bartosz Borczyk, Bassam A Alahmadi, Abdulhadi Aloufi, Tomasz Skawiński
Squamates exhibit evident diversity in their limb morphology. Gekkotans are a particularly diverse group in this respect. The appearance of toepads in gekkotans usually cooccurs with the reduction or loss of claws. The gecko Tarentola (Phyllodactylidae) shows a unique combination of features among geckos, with toepads, hyperphalangy, and dimorphism of claw expression (claws are retained on digits III and IV, but lost (manus) or strongly reduced (pes) on the remaining digits). Despite being a candidate model for studying embryonic skeletal development of the autopodium, no studies have investigated the autopodial development of the gecko Tarentola in detail...
March 29, 2024: Zoology: Analysis of Complex Systems, ZACS