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Spondyloarthropathy in vertebrae of the aquatic Cretaceous snake Lunaophis aquaticus, and its first recognition in modern snakes
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Inflammatory arthritis is documented for the first time in snakes. Ossification of the intervertebral capsule and zygapophyseal joints resulting in segmental vertebral fusion was observed in the aquatic Cretaceous snake Lunaophis aquaticus. Such pathologic alterations are pathognomonic for the spondyloarthropathy form of inflammatory arthritis. A survey of 2144 snakes in recent collections, performed to identify Holocene prevalence, revealed only two occurrences in extant snakes. The findings...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- 10.1007/s00114-018-1576-7
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+ Argentine National Scientific and Technical Research Council
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112-201501-00065
Bibliographic Details
- Publisher:
- Springer Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Naturwissenschaften Journal website
- Volume:
- 105
- Issue:
- 9
- Article number:
- 51
- Publication date:
- 2018-08-14
- Acceptance date:
- 2018-08-04
- DOI:
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1432-1904
- ISSN:
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0028-1042
- Pmid:
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30291451
- Source identifiers:
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926154
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- English
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pubs:926154
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uuid:892383d7-9b00-4a3c-9eb0-8596da76c911
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- pubs:926154
- Deposit date:
- 2018-10-16
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- Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany
- Copyright date:
- 2018
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- © Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature 2018. This is the accepted manuscript version of the article. The final version is available online from Springer at: 10.1007/s00114-018-1576-7
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