Ossification heterochrony in the therian postcranial skeleton and the marsupial-placental dichotomy

Evolution

Volumn 62, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 2027-2041

  Weisbecker, Vera ^a   Goswami, Anjali ^b   Wroe, Stephen ^a   Sánchez Villagra, Marcelo R ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c PALÄONTOLOGISCHES INSTITUT UND MUSEUM   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Event pair; Heterochrony; Life history; Neonate; Pouch; Theria

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT; CRANIUM; DIACHRONISM; LIFE HISTORY; MARSUPIAL; MORPHOLOGY; OPTIMIZATION;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BONE; BONE DEVELOPMENT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; GENETICS; IMAGE PROCESSING; MALE; MAMMAL; MARSUPIAL; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; NEWBORN; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLACENTA; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BONE AND BONES; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MAMMALS; MARSUPIALIA; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL; OSTEOGENESIS; PHYLOGENY; PLACENTA; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EUTHERIA; MAMMALIA; METATHERIA; THERIA;

EID: 47849131373     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: 15585646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2008.00424.x     Document Type: Article

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