Developmental response to cold stress in cranial morphology of Rattus: Implications for the interpretation of climatic adaptation in fossil hominins

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 273, Issue 1601, 2006, Pages 2605-2610

  Rae, Todd C ^a   Vioarsdóttir, Una Strand ^a   Jeffery, Nathan ^b   Steegmann Jr , A Theodore ^c  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

Cranial pneumatization; Geometric morphometrics; Paranasal sinuses

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; COLD TOLERANCE; CRANIUM; FOSSIL RECORD; MORPHOLOGY; PLEISTOCENE; PRIMATE; RODENT; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTHROPOLOGY; ARTICLE; COLD STRESS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRANIOFACIAL MORPHOLOGY; FOSSIL; HUMAN; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PARANASAL SINUS; PLEISTOCENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STUDENT T TEST;

CRANIA; HOMO SAPIENS NEANDERTHALENSIS; PRIMATES; RATTUS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 33750023188     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2006.3629     Document Type: Article

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