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| Title |
Hen's teeth with enamel cap: from dream to impossibility
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|---|---|
| Published in |
BMC Ecology and Evolution, September 2008
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| DOI | 10.1186/1471-2148-8-246 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Jean-Yves Sire, Sidney C Delgado, Marc Girondot |
| Abstract |
The ability to form teeth was lost in an ancestor of all modern birds, approximately 100-80 million years ago. However, experiments in chicken have revealed that the oral epithelium can respond to inductive signals from mouse mesenchyme, leading to reactivation of the odontogenic pathway. Recently, tooth germs similar to crocodile rudimentary teeth were found in a chicken mutant. These "chicken teeth" did not develop further, but the question remains whether functional teeth with enamel cap would have been obtained if the experiments had been carried out over a longer time period or if the chicken mutants had survived. The next odontogenetic step would have been tooth differentiation, involving deposition of dental proteins. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 3 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 1 | 33% |
| Uruguay | 1 | 33% |
| Unknown | 1 | 33% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 2 | 67% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 1 | 33% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 67 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 2 | 3% |
| France | 1 | 1% |
| Canada | 1 | 1% |
| Brazil | 1 | 1% |
| Unknown | 62 | 93% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Researcher | 15 | 22% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 9 | 13% |
| Professor | 9 | 13% |
| Student > Master | 8 | 12% |
| Professor > Associate Professor | 7 | 10% |
| Other | 10 | 15% |
| Unknown | 9 | 13% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 32 | 48% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 9 | 13% |
| Environmental Science | 5 | 7% |
| Earth and Planetary Sciences | 4 | 6% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 4 | 6% |
| Other | 2 | 3% |
| Unknown | 11 | 16% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 4. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 06 January 2024.
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#7,355,485
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#1,676
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#31,742
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#16
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So far Altmetric has tracked 3,714 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 12.5. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 52% of its peers.
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