Juvenile morphology: A clue to the origins of the most mysterious of mysticetes?

Naturwissenschaften

Volumn 100, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 257-261

  Marx, Felix G ^a   Buono, Mónica R ^b   Fordyce, R Ewan ^a   Boessenecker, R W ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b Facultad de Ciencias Naturales e Instituto M Lillo   (Argentina)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Baleen whale; Caperea; Cetacea; Evolution; Mysticeti; Pygmy right whale

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; CLADISTICS; FOSSIL RECORD; JUVENILE; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; MORPHOLOGY; ONTOGENY; WHALE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BONE; CLASSIFICATION; EVOLUTION; FOSSIL; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HISTOLOGY; MANDIBLE; MAXILLA; WHALE;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BONE AND BONES; FOSSILS; MANDIBLE; MAXILLA; WHALES;

BALAENIDAE; BALAENOPTERIDAE; CAPEREA; CAPEREA MARGINATA; CETACEA; ESCHRICHTIIDAE; MAMMALIA; MYSTICETI;

EID: 84876285928     PISSN: 00281042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00114-013-1012-y     Document Type: Article

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