Structure, development, and functional morphology of the cement gland of the giant danio, Devario malabaricus.
Hannah M NelsonGabrielle C CoffingSarah ChilsonKamil HesterCasandra CarrilloSamantha OstreicherWendy TomamichelSamuel HanlonAlan R BurnsPascal J LafontantPublished in: Developmental dynamics : an official publication of the American Association of Anatomists (2019)
Taken together, our studies provide the first documentation of the embryonic development, structure, and function of the adhesive apparatus of a danioninae. To our knowledge, this is also the first report of a cement gland arising from convergence of two bilateral fields.