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Feeding behaviour in a ‘basal’ tortoise provides insights on the transitional feeding mode at the dawn of modern land turtle evolution

Almost all extant testudinids are highly associated with terrestrial habitats and the few tortoises with high affinity to aquatic environments are found within the genus Manouria. Manouria belongs to a clade which forms a sister taxon to all remaining tortoises and is suitable as a model for studyin...

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Autores principales: Natchev, Nikolay, Tzankov, Nikolay, Werneburg, Ingmar, Heiss, Egon
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: PeerJ Inc. 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4558077/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26339550
http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1172