Limb development in the Pacific giant salamanders, Dicamptodon (Amphibia, Caudata, Dicamptodontidae)

Author:

Wake David B,Shubin Neil

Abstract

The larvae of Pacific giant salamanders, Dicamptodon (Dicamptodontidae), develop in streams, display precocious limb development, and possess a full complement of digits at hatching. Limb morphogenesis was studied using cleared whole mounts stained with Alcian Blue or by immunohistochemical methods to reveal stages of limb development. Limb morphogenesis in these salamanders conforms to the general caudate pattern, i.e., preaxial dominance and precocious development of an initially isolated digital arch, despite some differences in detail from other salamander taxa. These comparisons support the hypothesis that a fundamental ground plan characterizes limb development in salamanders which transcends adaptive modifications related to ecology and life-history evolution. This ground plan differs from that which characterizes frogs and amniotes, which shows postaxial dominance and a digital arch that arises from basal elements.

Publisher

Canadian Science Publishing

Subject

Animal Science and Zoology,Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

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