Breaking symmetry: The marine environment, prey size, and the evolution of asymmetry in cetacean skulls

Anatomical Record

Volumn 290, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 539-545

  Macleod, C D ^a   Reidenberg, J S ^b   Weller, M ^c   Santos, M B ^a,d   Herman, J ^e   Goold, J ^c   Pierce, G J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^b MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d Instituto Español de Oceanografía Subida a Radio Faro   (Spain)

^e DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Directional asymmetry; Prey size; Skull morphology; Toothed whales, stomach contents, anatomy

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL ANATOMY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; EVOLUTION; HYOID BONE; LARYNX; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MARINE MAMMAL; NONHUMAN; PHARYNX; PREY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKULL; STOMACH CONTENT; SWALLOWING;

ANIMALS; BODY SIZE; CETACEA; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION; FOOD CHAIN; FOOD HABITS; GASTROINTESTINAL CONTENTS; NOSE; OCEANS AND SEAS; SKULL;

CETACEA; DELPHINUS; GLOBICEPHALA; GRAMPUS; HYPEROODON; KOGIA; LAGENORHYNCHUS; MESOPLODON; ODONTOCETI; ORCINUS; PHOCOENA; PHOCOENIDAE; STENELLA (CETACEA); TURSIOPS; ZIPHIUS;

EID: 34250622114     PISSN: 19328486     EISSN: 19328494     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ar.20539     Document Type: Article

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