Statistical support for the hypothesis of developmental constraint in marsupial skull evolution

BMC Biology

Volumn 11, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Bennett, C Verity ^a   Goswami, Anjali ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cranium; Developmental constraint; Geometric morphometrics; Marsupial; Placental

Indexed keywords

CRANIA; EUTHERIA; METATHERIA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DATA BASE; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION; FOSSIL; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HISTOLOGY; MARSUPIAL; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SKULL; SPECIES EXTINCTION; STATISTICS;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; DATABASES AS TOPIC; ECOSYSTEM; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; FOSSILS; MARSUPIALIA; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SKULL; STATISTICS AS TOPIC;

EID: 84876693829     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17417007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1741-7007-11-52     Document Type: Article

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