Diet and dental topography in pitheciine seed predators

American Journal of Physical Anthropology

Volumn 150, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 107-121

  Ledogar, Justin A ^a   Winchester, Julia M ^b,c   St Clair, Elizabeth M ^d   Boyer, Doug M ^d,e,f  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^d DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^f New York Consortium of Evolutionary Primatology ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Cacajao; Chiropotes; dietary adaptation; Pithecia; teeth

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; CACAJAO; CHIROPOTES; CLADISTICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRUSHING STRENGTH; DIET; ENAMEL; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEEDING ECOLOGY; FOOD INTAKE; INTRASPECIFIC VARIATION; MASTICATION; MOLAR TOOTH; NEOTROPICS; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PITHECIA; PLANT SEED; PLATYRRHINI; PREDATOR; SEED PREDATOR; SURFACE PROPERTY; TOOTH; TOOTH DEVELOPMENT; TOOTH OCCLUSION; TOPOGRAPHY;

ANIMALS; ANTHROPOLOGY, PHYSICAL; BIOMECHANICS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; DIET; HERBIVORY; MASTICATION; MOLAR; PITHECIIDAE; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SKULL; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 84871621070     PISSN: 00029483     EISSN: 10968644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.22181     Document Type: Article

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