Skull shape and size variation in Ctenomys minutus (Rodentia: Ctenomyidae) in geographical, chromosomal polymorphism, and environmental contexts

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 101, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 705-720

  Fornel, Rodrigorod ^a   Cordeiro Estrela, Pedro ^a   De Freitas, Thales Renato O ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Chromosomal rearrangements; Cranial morphology; Geometric morphometrics; Isolation by distance; Partial least squares; QST; Subterranean

Indexed keywords

CHROMOSOME; COASTAL PLAIN; GENE FLOW; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION; HYBRID ZONE; ISOLATED POPULATION; KARYOTYPE; MICROHABITAT; MIGRATION; MORPHOLOGY; MORPHOMETRY; NATURAL SELECTION; POLYMORPHISM; RODENT; SIZE; SKULL; SPECIES OCCURRENCE; SUBTERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT;

BRAZIL;

CTENOMYIDAE; CTENOMYS MINUTUS; ROBERTSONIA; RODENTIA;

EID: 77958561339     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: 10958312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2010.01496.x     Document Type: Article

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