Browsing Faculty of Arts and Sciences by Keyword "Carnivora"
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Host Longevity and Parasite Species Richness in Mammals
(Public Library of Science, 2012-07-20)Hosts and parasites co-evolve, with each lineage exerting selective pressures on the other. Thus, parasites may influence host life-history characteristics, such as longevity, and simultaneously host life-history may ... -
Impact of the terrestrial-aquatic transition on disparity and rates of evolution in the carnivoran skull
(BioMed Central, 2015)Background: Which factors influence the distribution patterns of morphological diversity among clades? The adaptive radiation model predicts that a clade entering new ecological niche will experience high rates of evolution ...