Three‐dimensional digital analysis of musteloid masticatory muscle architecture
The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.Musteloids span an enormous breadth of dietary modes within a single superfamily. In this study, we utilize digital dissection techniques to reconstruct the internal 3D anatomy of muscles within the musteloid feeding apparatus, and explore how dietary specializations might alter the size, orientation, and curvature of fascicles therein.
Cassidy E. Davis +6 more
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Soil Depth Influences Fungal Community Structure and Ecological Processes in a Degraded Soda Saline-Alkali Wetland. [PDF]
Biology (Basel)Ding J, Li X.
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Scaling and ecomorphology of lagomorph body shape and appendicular skeleton
The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.Abstract Body shape is one of the most prominent features of phenotypic variation. Yet, mammalian body shapes are poorly quantified and the underlying components contributing to its diversity and its relationship to other skeletal components are rarely tested.
Nia Brice, Coby Huizenga, Chris J. Law
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Crop fields complement biodiversity in permanent grasslands across European landscapes. [PDF]
Nat CommunBoetzl FA +17 more
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Bite force estimates and morphological correlations of jaw muscles in parrots
The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.Abstract Parrots (Order: Psittaciformes) are renowned for their high bite force (BF) and morphological correlates thereof, including a highly mobile skull and two unique mandibular adductor muscles—m. pseudomasseter and m. ethmomandibularis, with the former being hypothesized to increase force output.
Ana Carolina L. Faillace +3 more
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Assessing Habitat Suitability and Climate-Change Responses of Raptors in Hunan Province, China, Using Ensemble Species Distribution Models. [PDF]
Animals (Basel)Zeng Y +5 more
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Postnatal craniomandibular growth in Harbor seals (Phoca vitulina vitulina)
The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.Postnatal ontogeny in Harbor seals (Phoca vitulina vitulina). Cranium and mandible grow rapidly until 5 years of age, followed by a deceleration and finally a stagnation. Abstract As secondarily aquatic carnivores, seals display several phenotypic differences compared to their terrestrial relatives.
Elisabeth Steinbach +2 more
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Climate Change Restructures the Suitable Habitat of <i>Bambusa emeiensis</i> in Southwestern China: Disproportionate Core-Habitat Loss and Divergent Centroid Shifts. [PDF]
Plants (Basel)Liu M, Cai C, Liu G, Shi X, Li S, Fan S.
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Humans and platyrrhines share a pattern of articular variance
The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.Abstract Previous work has identified a pattern of articular shape variation in modern human limb joints, in which convex joint surfaces exhibit constrained variance relative to their more variable concave conarticulars. This pattern is notable given that joint morphogenesis is influenced by local biomechanical environments, which vary substantially ...
Haley Horbaly, Liam Zachary
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Habitat and Anthropogenic Determinants of Otter Presence in the Karnali River, Western Nepal. [PDF]
Ecol EvolAcharya M, Subba A, Pandey N, Khanal L.
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