The functional relationship between feeding type and jaw and cranial morphology in ungulates

Oecologia

Volumn 118, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 157-165

  Pérez Barbería, F Javier ^a,b   Gordon, Iain J ^a  

^a SCOTTISH CROP RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^b Inst Recurs Nat Ordenacion T   (Spain)

Author keywords

Comparative method; Feeding type; Jaw; Skull; Ungulates

Indexed keywords

FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; UNGULATE;

EID: 0242508243     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004420050714     Document Type: Article

References (65)

1. Axmacher H, Hofmann RR (1988) Morphological characteristics of the masseter muscle of 22 ruminant species. J Zool (Lond) 215:463-473
2. Ball SS, Roth VL (1995) Jaw muscles of new-world squirrels. J Morphol 224:265-291
3. Barber CG, Green LJ, Cox GJ (1963) Effect of the physical consistency of the diet on the condylar growth of the rat mandible. J Dent Res 42:848-851
4. Beecher RM, Corruccini RS (1981) Effects of the dietary consistency on craniofacial and occlusal development in the rat. Angle Orthod 51:61-69
5. Boue C (1970) Morphologie fonctionelle des dents labials chez les ruminants. Mammalia 34:696-771
6. Bouvier M, Hylander WL (1982) The effect of dietary consistency on morphology of the mandibular condylar cartilage in young macaques (Macaca mulatta). In: Dixon AD, Sarnat BG, (eds) Factors and mechanisms influencing bone growth. Liss, New York, pp 569-579
7. Butler PM (1952) The milk-molars of Perissodactyla, with remarks on molar occlusion. Proc Zool Soc Lond 121:777-817
8. Crompton AW, Hiiemäe K (1969) How mammalian molar teeth work. Discovery 5:23-34
9. Diaz-Uriarte R, Garland T (1996) Testing hypotheses of correlated evolution using phylogenetically independent contrasts - sensitivity to deviations from brownian-motion. Syst Biol 45:27-47
10. Felsenstein J (1985) Phylogenies and the comparative method. Am Nat 125:1-15
11. Fortelius M (1985) Ungulate cheek teeth: developmental, functional and evolutionary interrelations. Acta Zool Fenn 180:1-76
12. Garland T, Janis CM (1993) Does metatarsal femur ratio predict maximal running speed in cursorial mammals. J Zool (Lond) 229:133-151
13. Garland T, Harvey PH, Ives AR (1992) Procedures for the analysis of comparative data using phylogenetically independent contrasts. Syst Biol 41:18-32
14. Garland T, Dickerman AW, Janis CM, Jones JA (1993) Phylogenetic analysis of covariance by computer-simulation. Syst Biol 42:265-292
15. Gentry AW, Hooker JJ (1988) The phylogeny of the Artiodactyla. In: Benton MJ (ed) The phylogeny and classification of the tetrapods. vol 2. Mammals. Systematics Association special vol 35B. Clarendon, Oxford, pp 235-272
16. Gerstner GE, Goldberg LJ (1994) Species-specific morphology of masticatory jaw movements. Behaviour 128:229-253
17. Gordon IJ, Illius AW (1988) Incisor arcade structure and diet selection in ruminants. Funct Ecol 2:15-22
18. Gordon IJ, Illius AW (1994) The functional-significance of the browser-srazer dichotomy in African ruminants. Oecologia 98:167-175
19. Gordon IJ, Illius AW (1996) The nutritional ecology of African ruminants a reinterpretation. J Anim Ecol 65:18-28
20. Grafen A (1989) The phylogenetic regression. Phil Trans R Soc Lond B 326:119-157
21. Greaves WS (1980) The mammalian jaw mechanism - the high glenoid cavity. Am Nat 116:432-440
22. Harvey PH, Pagel MD (1991) The comparative method in evolutionary biology. Oxford University Press, Oxford
23. Herring SW (1993) Functional-morphology of mammalian mastication. Am Zool 33:289-299
24. Herring SW, Scapino RP (1973) Physiology of feeding in miniature pigs. J Morphol 141:427-460
25. Hofmann RR (1973) The ruminant stomach: stomach structure and feeding habits of East African game ruminants. East African Literature Bureau, Nairobi
26. Hofmann RR (1988) Anatomy of the gastro-intestinal tract. In: Church DC (ed) The ruminant animal: digestive physiology and nutrition. Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, pp 14-43
27. Hofmann RR (1989) Evolutionary steps of ecophysiological adaptation and diversification of ruminants - a comparative view of their digestive-system. Oecologia 78:443-457
28. Hofmann RR, Stewart DRM (1972) Grazer or browser: a classification based on the stomach-structure and feeding habitats of East African ruminants. Mammalia 36:226-240
29. Hylander WL (1985) Mandibular function and biomechanical stress and scaling. Am Zool 25:315-330
30. Janis CM (1979) Mastication in the hyrax and its relevance to ungulate dental evolution. Paleobiology 5:50-59
31. Janis CM (1983) Muscles of the masticatory apparatus in two aenera of hyraces (Procavia and Heterohyrax). J Morphol 176:61-87
32. Janis CM, Ehrhardt D (1988) Correlation of relative muzzle width and relative incisor width with dietary preference in ungulates. Zool J Linn Soc 92:267-284
33. Janis CM, Scott KM (1988) The phylogeny of the Ruminantia (Artiodactyla, Mammalia). In: Benton MJ (ed) The phylogeny and classification of the tetrapods, vol 2. Mammals. Systematics Association special vol 35B. Clarendon, Oxford, pp 273-282
34. Jones JA, Dickerman AW, Garland T (1994) Phenotypic diversity analysis program PDAP, version 2.0, copyright 28 September 1994
35. Kay RF (1977) The evolution of molar occlusion in the Cercopithecidae and early catarrhines. Am J Phys Anthropol 46:327-352
36. Kay RF (1981) The nut-crackers - a new theory of the adaptations of the Ramapithecinae. Am J Phys Anthropol 55:141-151
37. Kay RF, Hiiemäe KM (1974) Jaw movement and tooth use in recent and fossil primates. Am J Phys Anthropol 40:227-256
38. Kiltie RA (1982) Bite force as a basis for niche differentiation between rain-forest peccaries (tayassu-tajacu and tayassu-pecari). Biotropica 14:188-195
39. Kingdon J (1982) East African mammals: an atlas of evolution in Africa, vol IIIC. Bovids. Academic Press, London
40. Kingdon J (1997) The Kingdon field guide to African mammals. Academic Press, London
41. Martins EP, Garland T (1991) Phylogenetic analyses of the correlated evolution of continuous characters - a simulation study. Evolution 45:534-557
42. Maynard-Smith J, Savage RJG (1959) The mechanics of mammalian jaws. School Sci Rev 40:289-301
43. McNaughton SJ (1991) Evolutionary ecology of large tropical herbivores. In: Price PW, Lewinsohn TM, Fernandes GW,
44. Benson WW (eds) Plant-animal interactions: evolutionary ecolosy in tropical and temperate regions. Wiley, New York, pp 509-520
45. Norusis M (1990) SPSS/PC + 4.0 for the IW PC/XT/AT and PS/2. SPSS, Chicago
46. Novak RM (1991) Walker's mammals of the world, 5th edn. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, Md
47. Owen-Smith N (1982) Factors influencing the consumption of plant products by large herbivores. In: Huntley BJ, Walker BH (eds) Ecology of tropical savannas. Springer, Berlin Heidelberg New York, pp 359-404
48. Pérez-Burbería FJ, Gordon IJ (1998) Factors affecting food comminution during mastication in herbivorous mammals: a review. Biol J Linn Soc 63:233-256
49. Purvis A, Garland T (1993) Polytomies in comparative analyses of continuous characters. Syst Biol 42:569-575
50. Raadsheer MC, Kiliaridis S, Vaneijden TMGJ, Vanginkel FC, Prahlandersen B (1996) Masseler muscle thickness in growing individuals and its relation to facial morphology. Arch Oral Biol 41:323-332
51. Radinsky L (1985) Patterns in the evolution of ungulate jaw shape. Am Zool 25:303-314
52. Robbins CT, Spalinger DE, Vanhoven W (1995) Adaptation of ruminants to browse and grass diets - are anatomical-based browser-grazer interpretations valid. Oecologia 103:208-213
53. Scapino RP (1972) Adaptive radiation of mammalian jaws. In: Schumacher GH (ed) Morphology of the maxillo-mandibular apparatus. IXth International Congress of Anatomy, Leipzig, pp 33-39
54. Schuitz BB (1985) Levene test for relative variation. Syst Zool 34:449-456
55. Smith KK, Redford KH (1990) The anatomy and function of the feeding apparatus in two armadillos (Dasypoda): anatomy is not destiny. J Zool 222:27-47
56. Smith RJ, Petersen CE, Gipe DP (1983) Size and shape of the mandibular condyle in primates. J Morpholol 177:59-68
57. Sokal RR, Rohlf FJ (1995) Biometry, 3rd edn. Freeman, New York
58. Stöckmann W (1979) Differences in the shape of the mandibles of African Bovidae (Mammalia) in relation to food composition. Zool Jahrb Syst 106:344-373
59. Tabachnick BG, Fidell LS (1996) Using multivariate statistics, 3rd edn. HarperCollins, New York
60. Trainor PGS, McLachlan KR, McCall WD (1995) Modeling of forces in the human masticatory system with optimization of the angulations of the joint loads. J Biomech 28:829-843
61. Turnbull WD (1970) Mammalian masticatory apparatus. Fieldiana Geol 18:147-356
62. Vree F de, Gans C (1976) Mastication in pygmy goats Capra hircus. Ann Soc R Zool Belg 105:255-306
63. Waltimo A, Nystrom M, Kononen M (1994) Bite force and dentofacial morphology in men with severe dental attrition. Scand J Dent Res 102:92-96
64. Wedel A, Carlsson GE, Sagne S (1978) Temporomandibular joint morphology in a medieval skull material. Swed Dent J 2:177-187
65. Weijs WA, Dantuma R (1981) Functional anatomy of the masticatory apparatus in the rabit (Oryetolagus cuniculus L.). Neth J Zool 31:99-147