Postnatal ontogeny of marmot (rodentia, sciuridae) crania: Allometric trajectories and species divergence

Journal of Mammalogy

Volumn 87, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 201-215

  Cardini, A ^a,b   Thorington Jr , R W ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

^c DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

2 dimensional and 3 dimensional geometric morphometrics; Allometry; Marmota; Ontogeny; Petromarmota; Species divergence

Indexed keywords

ALLOMETRY; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; INTERSPECIFIC VARIATION; INTRASPECIFIC VARIATION; ONTOGENY; SEXUAL DIMORPHISM; SMALL MAMMAL;

CRANIA; MARMOTA; RODENTIA; SCIURIDAE;

EID: 33646231012     PISSN: 00222372     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1644/05-MAMM-A-242R1.1     Document Type: Article

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