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Evolutionary developmental biology

the developmental pattern in which new segments or body structures are added in sequence at the posterior end of a growing animal.

In evolutionary developmental biology, terminal addition refers to the developmental pattern in which new segments or body structures are added in sequence at the posterior end of a growing animal. This meaning comes from Jacobs (2005) in Evolution & Development.[1]

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References

Jacobs, D. K., Hughes, N. C., Fitz‐Gibbon, S. T., & Winchell, C. J. (2005). Terminal addition, the Cambrian radiation and the Phanerozoic evolution of bilaterian form. Evolution & Development, 7(6), 498-514. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1525-142x.2005.05055.x

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