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Most of the arguments for an intrinsic determination of skeletal morphology are inferred from results of chorio-allantoic grafts of limb segments (Fell and Canti 1934), from in vitro cultures of isolated skeletal elements (Carpenter 1950, Hicks 1982), and from amputations of whole distal segments at the joint level (Holder 1977).These approaches, however, do not unequivocally demonstrate an entirely intrinsic determination of the shape of skeletal elements, since most of the results reported were derived from developmental stages prior to the attainment of the final morphology.
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Streicher, J. (1991). Plasticity in Skeletal Development: Knee-Joint Morphology in Fibula-Deficient Chick Embryos. In: Hinchliffe, J.R., Hurle, J.M., Summerbell, D. (eds) Developmental Patterning of the Vertebrate Limb. NATO ASI Series, vol 205. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-3310-8_51
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