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Similar rates of morphological evolution in domesticated and wild pigs and dogs

BACKGROUND: Whether the great morphological disparity of domesticated forms is the result of uniformly higher evolutionary rates compared to the wild populations is debated. We provide new data on changes of skull dimensions within historical time periods in wild and domesticated dogs and pigs to te...

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Autores principales: Geiger, Madeleine, Sánchez-Villagra, Marcelo R.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5966889/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29796043
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12983-018-0265-x

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