The impact of diet, habitat use, and behaviour on head shape evolution in homalopsid snakes

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 118, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 634-647

  Fabre, Anne Claire ^a   Bickford, David ^b   Segall, Marion ^c,d   Herrel, Anthony ^c,e  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^c MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^e GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Activity pattern; Convergence; Functional morphology; Geometric morphometrics; Prey capture; Water snake

Indexed keywords

ACTIVITY PATTERN; AQUATIC ORGANISM; BURROWING ORGANISM; CONVERGENT EVOLUTION; DIET; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; FUNCTIONAL ROLE; MORPHOLOGY; MORPHOMETRY; NATURAL SELECTION; PHYLOGENETICS; PREY CAPTURE; PREY SELECTION; SNAKE; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

ANIMALIA; ANURA; CRUSTACEA; HOMALOPSINAE; NERODIA; SERPENTES;

EID: 84956888866     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: 10958312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/bij.12753     Document Type: Article

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