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Title: The physiology of horn growth: a study of the morphogenesis, the interaction of tissues, and the evolotionary processes of a Mendelian recessive character by means of transplantation of tissues
Author(s): Dove, W.F.
Year published: 1935
Journal: Journal of Experimental Zoology
Volume: 69 (3)
Pages: 347-405, pls. 1-5
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Horns of rhinoceros are considered by almost all writers as a structure composed entirely of hair, containing no bony core. In reality the composite hair is similar to the bony sheath of domestic cattle, and a bony excescence is present, but in a very diminished form. Skulls show that the bony ...
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