Body shape and life style of the extinct balearic dormouse hypnomys (rodentia, gliridae): New evidence from the study of associated skeletons

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 12, 2010, Pages

  Bover, Pere ^a,b   Alcover, Josep A ^a,b   Michaux, Jacques J ^c   Hautier, Lionel ^d   Hutterer, Rainer ^b,e  

^a INSTITUTO MEDITERRÁNEO DE ESTUDIOS AVANZADOS   (Spain)

^b DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

^c PSL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^e ZOOLOGISCHES FORSCHUNGSMUSEUM ALEXANDER KOENIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOLOGY; ARTICLE; BODY BUILD; BODY WEIGHT; BONE STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GLIRIDAE; HYPNOMYS MORPHEUS; HYPNOMYS ONICENSIS; LATE HOLOCENE; LIFESTYLE; LIMB; LOCOMOTION; MEASUREMENT; NONHUMAN; RODENT; SKELETON; SKULL; ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; BODY SIZE; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; FOSSIL; GEOGRAPHY; HISTOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPECIES EXTINCTION;

CANARIOMYS TAMARANI; ELIOMYS QUERCINUS; MYOXIDAE; RODENTIA;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; BODY SIZE; BODY WEIGHT; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; FOSSILS; GEOGRAPHY; RODENTIA; SKULL; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 79251487519     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0015817     Document Type: Article

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