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Bone Inner Structure Suggests Increasing Aquatic Adaptations in Desmostylia (Mammalia, Afrotheria)

BACKGROUND: The paleoecology of desmostylians has been discussed controversially with a general consensus that desmostylians were aquatic or semi-aquatic to some extent. Bone microanatomy can be used as a powerful tool to infer habitat preference of extinct animals. However, bone microanatomical stu...

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Autores principales: Hayashi, Shoji, Houssaye, Alexandra, Nakajima, Yasuhisa, Chiba, Kentaro, Ando, Tatsuro, Sawamura, Hiroshi, Inuzuka, Norihisa, Kaneko, Naotomo, Osaki, Tomohiro
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3615000/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23565143
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0059146