Sexual maturity and shape development in cranial appendages of extant ruminants
Abstract Morphological disparity arises through changes in the ontogeny of structures; however, a major challenge of studying the effect of development on shape is the difficulty of collecting time series of data for large numbers of taxa. A proxy for developmental series proposed here is the age at...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Wiley
2016-11-01
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Series: | Ecology and Evolution |
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Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.2512 |