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Conservatism and Adaptability during Squirrel Radiation: What Is Mandible Shape Telling Us?

Both functional adaptation and phylogeny shape the morphology of taxa within clades. Herein we explore these two factors in an integrated way by analyzing shape and size variation in the mandible of extant squirrels using landmark-based geometric morphometrics in combination with a comparative phylo...

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Autores principales: Casanovas-Vilar, Isaac, van Dam, Jan
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/PMC3617180/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23593456
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0061298