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A comparative study of prenatal development in Miniopterus schreibersii fuliginosus, Hipposideros armiger and H. pratti by Zhe Wang; Naijian Han; Paul A Racey; Binghua Ru; Guimei He is a Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology article available to read on EtoBox.

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## Abstract ## Background Bats comprise the second largest order of mammals. However, there are far fewer morphological studies of post-implantation embryonic development than early embryonic development in bats. ## Results We studied three species of bats (__Miniopterus schreibersii fuliginosus, Hipposideros armiger__ and __H. pratti__), representing the two suborders Yangochiroptera and Yinpterochiroptera. Using an established embryonic staging system, we identified the embryonic stages for __M. schreibersii fuliginosus, H. armiger__ and __H. pratti__ and described the morphological changes in each species, including the development of the complex and distinctive nose-leaves in __H. armiger__ and __H. pratti__. Finally, we compared embryonic and fetal morphology of the three species in the present study with five other species for which information is available. ## Conclusion As a whole, the organogenetic sequence of bat embryos is uniform and the embryos appear homoplastic before Stage 16. Morphological differentiation between species occurs mainly after embryonic Stage 16. Our study provides three new bat species for interspecific comparison of post-implantation embryonic devel

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Author

Zhe Wang; Naijian Han; Paul A Racey; Binghua Ru; Guimei He

Publisher

BioMed Central; Springer (Biomed Central Ltd.); London: BioMed Central, 2001-; Springer Science and Business Media LLC; Society for Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration Inc. (ISSN 1471-213X)

Published

2010

Language

EN

Field

Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (Life Sciences)