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Caudal autotomy as anti-predatory behaviour in Palaeozoic reptiles
Many lizards can drop a portion of their tail in response to an attack by a predator, a behaviour known as caudal autotomy. The capacity for intravertebral autotomy among modern reptiles suggests that it evolved in the lepidosaur branch of reptilian evolution, because no such vertebral features are...
Autores principales: | LeBlanc, A. R. H., MacDougall, M. J., Haridy, Y., Scott, D., Reisz, R. R. |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Nature Publishing Group UK
2018
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5838224/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29507301 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-21526-3 |
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