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. 2015 Jan 23;16(1):22. doi: 10.1186/s12864-014-1202-9

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© Chang et al.; licensee Biomed Central. 2015

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Developmental progress of feather skin and scale skin. Left side of chicken embryo: feather skin development from E7 to E9. Right side of chicken embryo: scale skin development from E9 to E11. The development stages for feather and scale skins are matched; top to down represents the developmental trend from undifferentiated skins to differentiated skins. During the process, skin gradually loses developmental plasticity in exchange for gaining regional specificity (right panel).