On a Model Mechanism for the Spatial Patterning of Teeth Primordia in the Alligator

† Division of Biology, Beckman Institute (139-74), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, 91125, U.S.A.; ‡ Sea Fisheries Research Institute, Rogge Bay, 8012 Capetown, South Africa; § Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195-2420, U.S.A.; §§ Centre for Mathematical Biology, Mathematical Institute, 24–29 St Giles’, Oxford OX1 3LB, U.K.; ¶ Department of Mathematics, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, NZ; and ¶¶ School of Biological Sciences, The University of Manchester, 3.239 Stopford Building, Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PT, U.K.

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