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Growth in fossil and extant deer and implications for body size and life history evolution

BACKGROUND: Body size variation within clades of mammals is widespread, but the developmental and life-history mechanisms by which this variation is achieved are poorly understood, especially in extinct forms. An illustrative case study is that of the dwarfed morphotypes of Candiacervus from the Ple...

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Autores principales: Kolb, Christian, Scheyer, Torsten M, Lister, Adrian M, Azorit, Concepcion, de Vos, John, Schlingemann, Margaretha AJ, Rössner, Gertrud E, Monaghan, Nigel T, Sánchez-Villagra, Marcelo R
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4332446/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25887855
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12862-015-0295-3