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Left to right: turtle embryo, emu embryo, snake embryo, gecko embryo. Photo by Takayuki Suzuki.

Matsubara, Y., et al. Anatomical integration of the sacral–hindlimb unit coordinated by GDF11 underlies variation in hindlimb positioning in tetrapods. Nat. Ecol. Evol. 1, 1392-1399 (2017).