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Title: Development of the Digestive Canal of the American Alligator

Author: Albert M. Reese

Illustrator: C. M. Reese

Release Date: August 15, 2007 [EBook #22327]

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Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections
Volume 56 Number 11

DEVELOPMENT OF THE DIGESTIVE CANAL
OF THE AMERICAN ALLIGATOR

With Fifteen Plates

By
ALBERT M. REESE
Professor of Zoology, West Virginia University

[Illustration: Smithsonian symbol]

(Publication 1946)

City of Washington
Published by the Smithsonian Institution
1910

The Lord Baltimore Press
BALTIMORE, MD., U. S. A.

DEVELOPMENT OF THE DIGESTIVE CANAL OF THE AMERICAN ALLIGATOR

By ALBERT M. REESE

Professor of Zoology, West Virginia University

In a previous paper (6) the writer described the general features in the
development of the American Alligator; and in other papers special
features were taken up in more detail.

In the present paper the development of the enteron is described in
detail, but the derivatives of the digestive tract (liver, pancreas,
lungs, etc.) are mentioned only incidentally; the development of these
latter structures may be described in a later paper.

No detailed description of the histological changes taking place during
development has been attempted, though a brief description of the
histology is given for each stage discussed.

The material upon which this work was done is the same as that used for
the preceding researches. It was collected by the author in central
Florida and southern Georgia by means of a grant from the Smithsonian
Institution, for which assistance acknowledgment is herewith gratefully
made.

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