Ancestral feeding state of ruminants reconsidered: earliest grazing adaptation claims a mixed condition for Cervidae

BACKGROUND: Specialised leaf-eating is almost universally regarded as the ancestral state of all ruminants, yet little evidence can be cited in support of this assumption, apart from the fact that all early ruminants had low crowned cheek teeth. Instead, recent years have seen the emergence evidence...

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Autores principales: DeMiguel, Daniel, Fortelius, Mikael, Azanza, Beatriz, Morales, Jorge
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2008
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2270802/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18205907
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2148-8-13

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2270802/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18205907
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2148-8-13

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