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Are Diet Preferences Associated to Skulls Shape Diversification in Xenodontine Snakes?

Snakes are a highly successful group of vertebrates, within great diversity in habitat, diet, and morphology. The unique adaptations for the snake skull for ingesting large prey in more primitive macrostomatan snakes have been well documented. However, subsequent diversification in snake cranial sha...

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Autores principales: Klaczko, Julia, Sherratt, Emma, Setz, Eleonore Z. F.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4757418/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26886549
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0148375

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