The pace of morphological change: Historical transformation of skull shape in St Bernard dogs

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 275, Issue 1630, 2008, Pages 71-76

  Drake, Abby Grace ^a,b   Klingenberg, Christian Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Allometry; Canis familiaris; Evolutionary rate; Geometric morphometrics; Procrustes analysis

Indexed keywords

ALLOMETRY; CANID; EVOLUTION; GEOMETRY; MORPHOLOGY; MORPHOMETRY; SKULL;

ALLOMETRY; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BREED; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOG; GEOMETRY; HISTORY; MAXILLA; MORPHOLOGY; MORPHOMETRICS; NONHUMAN; ONTOGENY; PALATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKULL;

CANIS FAMILIARIS;

EID: 36349010900     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2007.1169     Document Type: Article

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