Patterns of morphological integration in the appendicular skeleton of mammalian carnivores

Evolution

Volumn 69, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 321-340

  Martín Serra, Alberto ^a   Figueirido, Borja ^a   Pérez Claros, Juan Antonio ^a   Palmqvist, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÁLAGA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Appendicular skeleton; Carnivorans; Cursorial; Locomotion; Morphological integration; Morphometrics

Indexed keywords

BODY SHAPE; BOOTSTRAPPING; CARNIVORE; EVOLUTIONARY THEORY; INTRASPECIFIC INTERACTION; LOCOMOTION; MAMMAL; MORPHOMETRY; SKELETON; SPECIALIZATION;

MAMMALIA;

ADAPTATION; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; BODY SIZE; BONES OF THE ARM AND HAND; BONES OF THE LEG AND FOOT; CARNIVORA; EVOLUTION; LOCOMOTION; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BODY SIZE; BONES OF LOWER EXTREMITY; BONES OF UPPER EXTREMITY; CARNIVORA; LEAST-SQUARES ANALYSIS; LOCOMOTION; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 84922566987     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: 15585646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/evo.12566     Document Type: Article

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