Mandible shape in marsupial and placental carnivorous mammals: A morphological comparative study using geometric morphometrics

Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 164, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 836-855

  Prevosti, Francisco J ^a   Turazzini, Guillermo F ^a   Ercoli, Marcos D ^a   Hingst Zaher, Erika ^b  

^a MUSEO ARGENTINO DE CIENCIAS NATURALES BERNARDINO RIVADAVIA   (Argentina)

^b INSTITUTO BUTANTAN   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Allometry; Carnivora; Dasyuromorphia; Disparity; Phylogenetic morphometrics

Indexed keywords

CARNIVORA; DASYUROMORPHIA; DIDELPHIMORPHIA; MAMMALIA; METATHERIA;

EID: 84858748878     PISSN: 00244082     EISSN: 10963642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2011.00785.x     Document Type: Article

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