Functional constraints on tooth morphology in carnivorous mammals

BMC Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Smits, Peter D ^a   Evans, Alistair R ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Carnivora; Dasyuromorphia; Ecomorphology; Integration; Three dimensional reconstruction

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; CARNIVORE; CARNIVORY; CONVERGENT EVOLUTION; ECOMORPHOLOGY; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; GEOMETRY; INTEGRATED APPROACH; MAMMAL; NUMERICAL MODEL; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; TOOTH;

CARNIVORA; DASYUROMORPHIA; MAMMALIA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CARNIVORA; HISTOLOGY; MANDIBLE; MARSUPIAL; MASTICATION; PHYSIOLOGY; TOOTH; TOOTH OCCLUSION;

ANIMALS; CARNIVORA; DENTAL OCCLUSION; MANDIBLE; MARSUPIALIA; MASTICATION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; TOOTH;

EID: 84864911434     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712148     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-12-146     Document Type: Article

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