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Cryptic complexity in felid vertebral evolution: shape differentiation and allometry of the axial skeleton

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Randau, Marcela, Goswami, Anjali, Hutchinson, John R., Cuff, Andrew R., Pierce, Stephanie E. (2016): Cryptic complexity in felid vertebral evolution: shape differentiation and allometry of the axial skeleton. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 178 (1): 183-202, DOI: 10.1111/zoj.12403, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/zoj.12403

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