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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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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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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 |