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Statistical support for the hypothesis of developmental constraint in marsupial skull evolution

BACKGROUND: In contrast to placental neonates, in which all cranial bones are ossified, marsupial young have only the bones of the oral region and the exoccipital ossified at birth, in order to facilitate suckling at an early stage of development. In this study, we investigated whether this heteroch...

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Hauptverfasser: Bennett, C Verity, Goswami, Anjali
Format: Artigo
Sprache:Inglês
Veröffentlicht: BioMed Central 2013
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Online Zugang:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3660189/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23622087
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1741-7007-11-52
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