Convergence and remarkably consistent constraint in the evolution of carnivore skull shape

Evolution

Volumn 61, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1251-1260

  Wroe, Stephen ^a   Milne, Nicholas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Carnivora; Convergence; Feeding ecology; Geometric morphometrics; Marsupial

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; CARNIVORE; CONVERGENT EVOLUTION; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEEDING ECOLOGY; INSECTIVORE; MARSUPIAL; MORPHOLOGY; MORPHOTYPE; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENETICS; SKULL;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CARNIVORA; EVOLUTION; FOSSIL; HISTOLOGY; MARSUPIAL; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SKULL;

ANIMALS; CARNIVORA; EVOLUTION; FOSSILS; MARSUPIALIA; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SKULL;

CARNIVORA; DASYUROMORPHIA; EUTHERIA; METATHERIA;

EID: 34247893838     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: 15585646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2007.00101.x     Document Type: Article

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