Patterns Of Ossification In Southern Versus Northern Placental Mammals

Evolution

Volumn 67, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1994-2010

  Hautier, Lionel ^a   Bennett, Nigel C ^b   Viljoen, Hermien ^b   Howard, Lauren ^c   Milinkovitch, Michel C ^d   Tzika, Athanasia C ^d   Goswami, Anjali ^d   Asher, Robert J ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^c DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^d Sciences III   (Switzerland)

^e UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Afrotheria; development; evolution; heterochrony; ossification; phylogeny; skeletogenesis

Indexed keywords

CLADISTICS; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; HETEROGENEITY; HOMOGENEITY; MAMMAL; PHYLOGENY; SKELETON; VARIANCE ANALYSIS;

AFROTHERIA; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BONE DEVELOPMENT; CLASSIFICATION; DEVELOPMENT; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; HETEROCHRONY; HISTOLOGY; MAMMAL; OSSIFICATION; PHYLOGENY; SKULL;

AFROTHERIA; DEVELOPMENT; EVOLUTION; HETEROCHRONY; OSSIFICATION; PHYLOGENY; SKELETOGENESIS;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; MAMMALS; OSTEOGENESIS; PHYLOGENY; SKULL;

AFROTHERIA; CHRYSOCHLORIDAE; ELEPHANTIDAE; EUARCHONTOGLIRES; EUTHERIA; LAURASIATHERIA; ORYCTEROPODIDAE; PROCAVIIDAE; TENREC; TENRECIDAE; VERTEBRATA; XENARTHRA;

EID: 84879788229     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: 15585646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/evo.12071     Document Type: Article

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