Linked morphological changes during palate evolution in early tetrapods

Journal of Anatomy

Volumn 215, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 91-109

  Kimmel, Charles B ^a   Sidlauskas, Brian ^b   Clack, Jennifer A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

^b NATIONAL EVOLUTIONARY SYNTHESIS CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY MUSEUM OF ZOOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Allometry; Amniotes; Ancestral states; Evolution; Heterochrony; Lepospondyls; Morphological evolution; Paedomorphosis; Palate; Temnospondyls; Tetrapods

Indexed keywords

ALLOMETRY; AMPHIBIA; ANIMAL ANATOMY; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BONE CHARACTERISTICS AND FUNCTIONS; BONE DEVELOPMENT; BONE LENGTH; BONE REMODELING; BONE SHAPE; BONE SIZE; BONE STRUCTURE; BONE WIDTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL GENETICS; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; EVOLUTIONARY DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; EVOLUTIONARY HOMOLOGY; FACIAL BONE; ISOMETRICS; NONHUMAN; OSTEOLYSIS; PALATE; PALEOZOIC; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PLESIOMORPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES COMPARISON; SPHENOID; TAXON; TETRAPOD; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BIOMETRY; PALATE; PALEONTOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; PTERYGOID MUSCLES; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; VERTEBRATES;

AMNIOTA; ANIMALIA; TETRAPODA;

EID: 67949105152     PISSN: 00218782     EISSN: 14697580     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-7580.2009.01108.x     Document Type: Article

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