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Alveoli, teeth, and tooth loss: Understanding the homology of internal mandibular structures in mysticete cetaceans

The evolution of filter feeding in baleen whales (Mysticeti) facilitated a wide range of ecological diversity and extreme gigantism. The innovation of filter feeding evolved in a shift from a mineralized upper and lower dentition in stem mysticetes to keratinous baleen plates that hang only from the...

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Publicado en:PLoS One
Autores principales: Peredo, Carlos Mauricio, Pyenson, Nicholas D., Uhen, Mark D., Marshall, Christopher D.
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Lenguaje:Inglês
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5438151/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28542468
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0178243
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