Do functional demands associated with locomotor habitat, diet, and activity pattern drive skull shape evolution in musteloid carnivorans?

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 117, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 858-878

  Dumont, Maïtena ^a   Wall, Christine E ^b   Botton Divet, Léo ^a   Goswami, Anjali ^c   Peigné, Stéphane ^d   Fabre, Anne Claire ^b  

^a MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique   (France)

Author keywords

3D geometric morphometrics; Comparative analyses; Cranium; Functional morphology; Locomotion

Indexed keywords

ACTIVITY PATTERN; CARNIVORE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CRANIUM; DIET; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; HABITAT; LOCOMOTION; MORPHOMETRY; PHYLOGENETICS; PINNIPED;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 84959559128     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: 10958312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/bij.12719     Document Type: Article

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