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Here, I used cranial geometric morphometrics to examine variation across 219 specimens of 14 allactagine species in light of their revised taxonomy. Congeners mostly clustered together based on their cranial shapes, except for S. hotsoni which clustered with O. bullata+O. balikunica and O. sibirica which clustered with A. major+A. severtzovi, likely due to convergence and allometry, respectively.
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This study shows how geometric morphometric methods can shed new ecological and evolutionary insights.
Perspectives
This study focuses on a charismatic desert rodent group--the jerboas.
Bader H Alhajeri
Kuwait University
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This page is a summary of: Cranial variation in allactagine jerboas (Allactaginae, Dipodidae, Rodentia): a geometric morphometric study, 动物学研究, January 2021, Zoological Research,
DOI: 10.24272/j.issn.2095-8137.2020.302.
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