Browsing Faculty of Arts and Sciences by Keyword "mammals"

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    • Ecological Changes in Miocene Mammalian Record Show Impact of Prolonged Climatic Forcing 

      Badgley, Catherine; Barry, John C.; Morgan, Michele Elizabeth; Behrensmeyer, Anna K.; Cerling, Thure E.; Pilbeam, David (National Academy of Sciences, 2008)
      Geohistorical records reveal the long-term impacts of climate change on ecosystem structure. A 5-myr record of mammalian faunas from floodplain ecosystems of South Asia shows substantial change in species richness and ...

    • On Sexual Dimorphism in Immune Function 

      Nunn, Charles; Lindenfors, Patrik; Pursall, E. Rhiannon; Rolff, Jens (The Royal Society, 2009)
      Sexual dimorphism in immune function is a common pattern in vertebrates and also in a number of invertebrates. Most often, females are more ‘immunocompetent’ than males. The underlying causes are explained by either the ...

    • Sexual Antagonism and the Evolution of X Chromosome Inactivation 

      Engelstädter, Jan; Haig, David Addison (Wiley Blackwell (Blackwell Publishing), 2008)
      In most female mammals, one of the two X chromosomes is inactivated early in embryogenesis. Expression of most genes on this chromosome is shut down, and the inactive state is maintained throughout life in all somatic ...

    • Three-dimensional mobility and muscle attachments in the pectoral limb of the Triassic cynodont Massetognathus pascuali (Romer, 1967) 

      Lai, Phil H.; Biewener, Andrew; Pierce, Stephanie (Wiley, 2018-03)
      The musculoskeletal configuration of the mammalian pectoral limb has been heralded as a key anatomical feature leading to the adaptive radiation of mammals, but limb function in the non-mammaliaform cynodont outgroup remains ...