RT Journal Article
T1 Dietary Ecology of Murinae (Muridae, Rodentia): A Geometric Morphometric Approach
A1 Gómez Cano, Ana Rosa
A1 Hernández Fernández, Manuel
A1 Álvarez Sierra, María De Los Ángeles
AB Murine rodents represent a highly diverse group, which displays great ecological versatility. In the present paper we analyse the relationship between dental morphology, on one hand, using geometric morphometrics based upon the outline of first upper molar and the dietary preference of extant murine genera, on the other. This ecomorphological study of extant murine rodents demonstrates that dietary groups can be distinguished with the use of a quantitative geometric morphometric approach based on first upper molar outline. A discriminant analysis of the geometric morphometric variables of the first upper molars enables us to infer the dietary preferences of extinct murine genera from the Iberian Peninsula. Most of the extinct genera were omnivore; only Stephanomys showed a pattern of dental morphology alike that of the herbivore genera.
PB Public Library Science
SN 1932-6203
YR 2013
FD 2013-11-13
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/34540
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/34540
LA eng
NO Received: February 20, 2013; Accepted: September 27, 2013; Published: November 13, 2013.© 2013 Gómez Cano et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
NO Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (MICINN)
DS Docta Complutense
RD 17 abr 2025