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

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Title
Statistical support for the hypothesis of developmental constraint in marsupial skull evolution
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BMC Biology, April 2013
DOI 10.1186/1741-7007-11-52
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C Verity Bennett, Anjali Goswami

Abstract

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 heterochronic shift in the timing of cranial ossification constrains cranial disparity in marsupials relative to placentals.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Cuba 1 <1%
Brazil 1 <1%
Unknown 101 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 22 21%
Student > Master 17 17%
Researcher 16 16%
Student > Bachelor 13 13%
Professor 5 5%
Other 15 15%
Unknown 15 15%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 59 57%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 8 8%
Medicine and Dentistry 6 6%
Environmental Science 5 5%
Earth and Planetary Sciences 4 4%
Other 4 4%
Unknown 17 17%