Pieau C, Raynaud A
C R Acad Hebd Seances Acad Sci D. 1976 May 24;282(20):1797-800.
Intracytoplasmic degeneration bodies are present early in the cells of the apical ridge of the limbbud in embryos of Testudo graeca; next, they are obvious in the apical fold till formation of the analgen of the fingers. This cell death may be responsible for a certain rudimentation of the limb (reduction of length of phalanges) in this species of Turtle.