Skeletal ossification and sequence heterochrony in xenarthran evolution

Evolution and Development

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 460-476

  Hautier, Lionel ^a   Weisbecker, Vera ^a   Goswami, Anjali ^b   Knight, Frank ^c   Kardjilov, Nikolay ^d   Asher, Robert J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c Division of Sciences and Mathematics   (United States)

^d HAHN MEITNER INSTITUT   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRANIUM; FOSSIL RECORD; GROWTH RATE; HETEROCHRONY (ONTOGENY); HOMOGENEITY; MARSUPIAL; MONOTREME; PALEONTOLOGY; PARSIMONY ANALYSIS; SKELETON; SKULL;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BONE; BONE DEVELOPMENT; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; HISTOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; XENARTHRA;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BONE AND BONES; OSTEOGENESIS; PHYLOGENY; XENARTHRA;

ARMADILLO; DASYPODIDAE; EUTHERIA; MAMMALIA; METATHERIA; MONOTREMATA; MYRMECOPHAGIDAE; SLOTHS; XENARTHRA;

EID: 80055043687     PISSN: 1520541X     EISSN: 1525142X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1525-142X.2011.00503.x     Document Type: Article

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