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Tooth wear as a means to quantify intra-specific variations in diet and chewing movements

In mammals, tooth function, and its efficiency, depends both on the mechanical properties of the food and on chewing dynamics. These aspects have rarely been studied in combination and/or at the intra-specific level. Here we applied 3D dental surface texture analysis to a sample of field voles (Micr...

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Autores principales: Calandra, Ivan, Labonne, Gaëlle, Schulz-Kornas, Ellen, Kaiser, Thomas M., Montuire, Sophie
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5034321/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27658531
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep34037