Dental morphometric variation between African and Asian colobines, with special reference to the other old world monkeys

Journal of Morphology

Volumn 267, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 1087-1098

  Pan, Ruliang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Africa; Asia; Cercopithecines; Colobina; Colobines; Dental morphometric variation; Dietary adaptation; Evolution; Presbytina

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; AFRICA; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ASIA; CERCOPITHECIDAE; COLOBINAE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EVOLUTION; HISTOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; TOOTH;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; AFRICA; ANIMALS; ASIA; CERCOPITHECIDAE; COLOBINAE; EVOLUTION; TOOTH;

CERCOPITHECIDAE; CERCOPITHECOIDEA; PRIMATES;

EID: 33748480895     PISSN: 03622525     EISSN: 10974687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmor.10463     Document Type: Article

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