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Breaking the mold: telescoping drives the evolution of more integrated and heterogeneous skulls in cetaceans

BACKGROUND: Along with the transition to the aquatic environment, cetaceans experienced profound changes in their skeletal anatomy, especially in the skull, including the posterodorsal migration of the external bony nares, the reorganization of skull bones (= telescoping) and the development of an e...

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Autores principales: Buono, Mónica R., Vlachos, Evangelos
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: PeerJ Inc. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9080436/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35539009
http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13392

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