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    Digging Up Convergence in Fossorial Rodents: Insights into Burrowing Activity and Morpho-Functional Specializations of the Masticatory Apparatus

    Fossorial habits are tightly related to digging abilities in vertebrates and the most extreme fossorial specialization is being restricted to conducting the entire life underground. Many mammals, especially ro...

    Helder Gomes Rodrigues, Radim Šumbera, Lionel Hautier… in Convergent Evolution (2023)

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    Evolution Towards Fossoriality and Morphological Convergence in the Skull of Spalacidae and Bathyergidae (Rodentia)

    Rodents show a wide range of anatomical, physiological, and behavioral adaptations to life underground. Cranial and postcranial bone morphologies are deeply impacted by the modes of digging, which can involve ...

    Morgane Fournier, Lionel Hautier, Helder Gomes Rodrigues in Journal of Mammalian Evolution (2021)

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    Evolutionary and Functional Implications of Incisor Enamel Microstructure Diversity in Notoungulata (Placentalia, Mammalia)

    Notoungulates are an extinct clade of South American mammals, comprising a large diversity of body sizes and skeletal morphologies, and including taxa with highly specialized dentitions. The evolutionary histo...

    Andréa Filippo, Daniela C. Kalthoff, Guillaume Billet… in Journal of Mammalian Evolution (2020)

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    Virtual Endocast Morphology of Mesotheriidae (Mammalia, Notoungulata, Typotheria): New Insights and Implications on Notoungulate Encephalization and Brain Evolution

    We provide morphological, quantitative, and qualitative studies of cranial endocasts of mesotheriid notoungulates solving previous open debate on notoungulate endocasts. For that purpose, we use the most accur...

    Marcos Fernández-Monescillo, Pierre-Olivier Antoine… in Journal of Mammalian Evolution (2019)

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    Evolving Teeth Within a Stable Masticatory Apparatus in Orkney Mice

    Mice from the Orkney archipelago exhibit an important diversity regarding molar shape. While on some islands mice display a usual dental pattern, teeth from other islands display additional cusplets and unusua...

    Sabrina Renaud, Ronan Ledevin, Louise Souquet… in Evolutionary Biology (2018)

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    Convergent Traits in Mammals Associated with Divergent Behaviors: the Case of the Continuous Dental Replacement in Rock-Wallabies and African Mole-Rats

    The study of convergences in mammals is crucial to understand the evolutionary processes underlying the origin of shared traits. A classic example is the independent evolution in the pygmy rock-wallaby, the si...

    Helder Gomes Rodrigues, Lionel Hautier, Alistair R. Evans in Journal of Mammalian Evolution (2017)

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    Life in Burrows Channelled the Morphological Evolution of the Skull in Rodents: the Case of African Mole-Rats (Bathyergidae, Rodentia)

    African mole-rats are fossorial rodents that consist of five chisel-tooth digging genera (Heterocephalus, Heliophobius, Georychus, Fukomys, and Cryptomys) and one scratch digger (Bathyergus). They are characteriz...

    Helder Gomes Rodrigues, Radim Šumbera, Lionel Hautier in Journal of Mammalian Evolution (2016)