Common features of cartilage maturation are not conserved in an amphibian model.
Jason K B NguyenPatsy Gómez-PicosYiwen LiuKatie OvensB Frank EamesPublished in: Developmental dynamics : an official publication of the American Association of Anatomists (2023)
These data reveal that basic cartilage maturation features in the head, and to a lesser extent in the limb, are not conserved in X tropicalis. Future work revealing how frogs deviate from the standard cartilage maturation program might shed light on both evolutionary and health studies.