Movement adds bite to the evolutionary morphology of mammalian teeth

Selection and constraints put limits on morphological evolution. Mammalian teeth are no exception, and the need for them to meet precisely exerts exacting constraints on a staggering array of developmental and functional factors that must be integrated to maintain their performance as they evolve. A...

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Autor principal: David Polly, P
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2012
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Commentary
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3420312/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22898247
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1741-7007-10-69
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description Selection and constraints put limits on morphological evolution. Mammalian teeth are no exception, and the need for them to meet precisely exerts exacting constraints on a staggering array of developmental and functional factors that must be integrated to maintain their performance as they evolve. A study in BMC Evolutionary Biology demonstrates that mandibular movement is an important component of this integration, and one that should not be neglected in the quantitiative study of the evolution of tooth morphology. See research article http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2148/12/146/
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spelling pubmed-34203122012-08-17 Movement adds bite to the evolutionary morphology of mammalian teeth David Polly, P BMC Biol Commentary Selection and constraints put limits on morphological evolution. Mammalian teeth are no exception, and the need for them to meet precisely exerts exacting constraints on a staggering array of developmental and functional factors that must be integrated to maintain their performance as they evolve. A study in BMC Evolutionary Biology demonstrates that mandibular movement is an important component of this integration, and one that should not be neglected in the quantitiative study of the evolution of tooth morphology. See research article http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2148/12/146/ BioMed Central 2012-08-16 /pmc/articles/PMC3420312/ /pubmed/22898247 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1741-7007-10-69 Text en Copyright ©2012 Polly; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Movement adds bite to the evolutionary morphology of mammalian teeth
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3420312/
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