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Maureen Kearney, Bryan L. Stuart: Repeated evolution of limblessness and digging heads in worm lizards revealed by DNA from old bones. Proceedings of the Royal Society B. Bd. 271, 2004, S. 1677–1683, doi:10.1098/rspb.2004.2771, PMC 1691774 (freier Volltext).
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