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The Earliest Ursine Bear Demonstrates the Origin of Plant-Dominated Omnivory in Carnivora

In Carnivora, increases in body size often lead to dietary specialization toward hypercarnivory. Ursine bears (Tremarctos and Ursus), however, are the only omnivorous Carnivora that evolved large body sizes (i.e., >50 kg). Traits contributing to their gigantism, and how those traits evolved, have...

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Autores principales: Jiangzuo, Qigao, Flynn, John J.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7303987/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32559731
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2020.101235