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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Mar 27.
Published in final edited form as: Nature. 2012 Sep 27;489(7417):561–565. doi: 10.1038/nature11499

Figure 1. A. kempi and A. percivali exhibit skin autotomy and subsequent rapid healing.

Figure 1

(a–b) A. kempi (a) and A. percivali (b) possess stiff, spine-like hairs on the dorsum. (c) A. kempi following loss of dorsal skin. (d–e) Scab formation following full thickness skin injury visible at D3 (d). The same wounds in (d) are no longer visible at D30 and new spiny hairs cover the damaged area (e). (f) Healing wound in field-caught specimen showing new hair follicles within the wound bed. Scale bars = 1 cm.