Extraordinarily thick-boned fish linked to the aridification of the Qaidam Basin (northern Tibetan Plateau)

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 105, Issue 36, 2008, Pages 13246-13251

  Chang, Meemann ^a   Wang, Xiaoming ^b   Liu, Huanzhang ^c   Miao, Desui ^d   Zhao, Quanhong ^e   Wu, Guoxuan ^e   Liu, Juan ^a   Li, Qiang ^a   Sun, Zhencheng ^f   Wang, Ning ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY AND PALEOANTHROPOLOGY   (China)

^b NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF HYDROBIOLOGY   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^e TONGJI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^f CHINA UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM CARBONATE; CALCIUM SULFATE; CARBONIC ACID DERIVATIVE;

ACID DEPOSITION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BONE DEVELOPMENT; CHINA; CYPRINIFORMES; DESERTIFICATION; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; FISH; GROWTH CURVE; LAKE; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MUSCLE; NONHUMAN; OSTEOSCLEROSIS; PHYLOGENY; PLIOCENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKELETON;

ANIMALS; DESERT CLIMATE; ECOLOGY; FISHES; FOSSILS; FRESH WATER; PHYLOGENY; TIBET;

APHANIUS; CYPRINIDAE; CYPRINODONTIDAE; INVERTEBRATA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 51649122750     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0805982105     Document Type: Article

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