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The morphology of the inner ear of squamate reptiles and its bearing on the origin of snakes

The inner ear morphology of 80 snake and lizard species, representative of a range of ecologies, is here analysed and compared to that of the fossil stem snake Dinilysia patagonica, using three-dimensional geometric morphometrics. Inner ear morphology is linked to phylogeny (we find here a strong ph...

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Autores principales: Palci, Alessandro, Hutchinson, Mark N., Caldwell, Michael W., Lee, Michael S. Y.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Royal Society Publishing 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5579127/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28879011
http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsos.170685