Getting out of an egg: Merging of tooth germs to create an egg tooth in the snake.
Juan M FonsMarcia GaeteOldrich ZahradnicekMarie LandovaHussein BandaliEraqi R KhannoonJoy M RichmanMarcela BuchtováAbigail S TuckerPublished in: Developmental dynamics : an official publication of the American Association of Anatomists (2019)
Our data agrees with previous hypotheses that during evolution one potential mechanism to generate a large tooth is through congrescence of multiple tooth germs and suggests that the ancestors of snakes could have had two egg teeth.