Functional morphology and integration of corvid skulls a 3D geometric morphometric approach

Frontiers in Zoology

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Kulemeyer, Christoph ^a,b   Asbahr, Kolja ^b   Gunz, Philipp ^c   Frahnert, Sylke ^b   Bairlein, Franz ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF AVIAN RESEARCH VOGELWARTE HELGOLAND   (Germany)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORVIDA; CORVUS CORAX; CORVUS MONEDULA; PICA PICA;

EID: 61849117930     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17429994     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1742-9994-6-2     Document Type: Article

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