Flexible conservatism in the skull modularity of convergently evolved myrmecophagous placental mammals.

Auteurs :
Ferreira-Cardoso S., Claude J., Goswami A., Delsuc F. & Hautier L.
Journal :
BMC Ecology and Evolution
Équipe :
ISEM
Année :
2022

These results reveal that despite some integration shifts related to extreme functional and morphological features of myrmecophagous skulls, cranial modular architectures have conserved the typical mammalian scheme.