The process through which a biological organism grows to maturity (in certain contexts it can mean the changes the organism goes through over its entire lifetime).
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Primary cilia: what cell types have non-motile cilia that migrate?
My understanding is that there are two broad categories of cilia: motile and non-motile (also called primary.
Examples of the former include sperm flagella and the cilia of epithelial cells that ...
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If a receptor is inhibited throughout embryogenesis, could there be observable phenotypic differences in the adult?
So I read a journal article entitled "Maternal hypoxia and caffeine exposure depress fetal CV function during primary organogenesis" (Momoi, et al., 2012) and in essence the article speaks of the ...
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When is wing growth in the bat complete and how soon can bats fly after wing growth is complete?
I was reading this paper by Cretekos et al (2008), in which they state that wing development in the bat is not complete until after birth - the wing continues to elongate postnatally. This would ...
