Is Beak Morphology in Darwin’s Finches Tuned to Loading Demands?

One of nature's premier illustrations of adaptive evolution concerns the tight correspondence in birds between beak morphology and feeding behavior. In seed-crushing birds, beaks have been suggested to evolve at least in part to avoid fracture. Yet, we know little about mechanical relationships...

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Autores principales: Soons, Joris, Genbrugge, Annelies, Podos, Jeffrey, Adriaens, Dominique, Aerts, Peter, Dirckx, Joris, Herrel, Anthony
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2015
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4466803/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26068929
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0129479

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4466803/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26068929
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0129479

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