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    Developmental Plasticity in the Ossification of the Proximal Femur of Heterocephalus glaber (Bathyergidae, Rodentia)

    The proximal femoral morphology in rodents of different body sizes, locomotor modes, and from the three main rodent lineages (Sciuromorpha, Myomorpha, and Hystricomorpha) exhibit a separated condition of the f...

    Germán Montoya-Sanhueza, Radim Šumbera, Nigel C. Bennett in Journal of Mammalian Evolution (2022)

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    Fossorial adaptations in African mole-rats (Bathyergidae) and the unique appendicular phenotype of naked mole-rats

    Life underground has constrained the evolution of subterranean mammals to maximize digging performance. However, the mechanisms modulating morphological change and development of fossorial adaptations in such ...

    Germán Montoya-Sanhueza, Gabriel Šaffa, Radim Šumbera in Communications Biology (2022)