Another one bites the dust: Faecal silica levels in large herbivores correlate with high-crowned teeth

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 278, Issue 1712, 2011, Pages 1742-1747

  Hummel, Jurgen ^a   Findeisen, Eva ^a   Südekum, Karl Heinz ^a   Ruf, Irina ^b   Kaiser, Thomas M ^c   Bucher, Martin ^d   Clauss, Marcus ^e   Codron, Daryl ^e  

^a Institut für Tierwissenschaften Präventives Gesundheitsmanagement   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^d Zoo Zurich   (Switzerland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Abrasiveness; Grit; Hypsodonty; Phytolith

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION; DIET; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; HERBIVORE; PALEONTOLOGY; PHYLOGENETICS; PHYTOLITH; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SAMPLING; SEASONAL VARIATION; SILICA;

LILIOPSIDA;

EID: 79955424673     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2010.1939     Document Type: Article

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