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Statistical support for the hypothesis of developmental constraint in marsupial skull evolution
BACKGROUND: In contrast to placental neonates, in which all cranial bones are ossified, marsupial young have only the bones of the oral region and the exoccipital ossified at birth, in order to facilitate suckling at an early stage of development. In this study, we investigated whether this heteroch...
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| Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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BioMed Central
2013
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3660189/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23622087 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1741-7007-11-52 |