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ACCORDING to current accounts of scale formation in Teleosts, the scale papillæ originate as independent centres of growth, their constituent cells being derived from the immediately underlying dermis. The remarkable regularity of arrangement of the scales in most fishes has always attracted attention and has led Backman1 to suggest that each papilla exercises an inhibiting influence on the development of the immediately surrounding tissue.
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NEAVE, F. Origin of the Teleost Scale-Pattern and the Development of the Teleost Scale. Nature 137, 1034–1035 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/1371034b0
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