Flexible conservatism in the skull modularity of convergently evolved myrmecophagous placental mammals

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• who: Su00e9rgio Ferreira-Cardoso from the (UNIVERSITY) have published the research work: Flexible conservatism in the skull modularity of convergently evolved myrmecophagous placental mammals, in the Journal: (JOURNAL)
• what: The authors show that extreme rostrum elongation and in myrmecophagid anteaters have resulted in a shift in intermodule correlations in the proximal region of the rostrum. The authors show that the absence of a module including a complete zygomatic arch is a frequent pattern among myrmecophagous placentals . While somatic growth is one of the main generators of phenotypic covariance across mammals , the authors show that within . . .
  

   

  

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