The number of published studies using geometric morphometrics (GM) for analysing
biological shape has increased steadily since the beginning of the 1990s, covering multiple …

Mammals (class Mammalia) have evolved diverse craniofacial morphology to adapt to a
wide range of ecological niches. However, the genetic and developmental mechanisms …

Pleistocene climatic oscillations favoured the expansion of grassland ecosystems and open
vegetation landscapes throughout the Neotropics, and influenced the evolutionary history of …

The plateau zokor (Eospalax baileyi) is employed as an ideal model for examining the
relationships between phenotypic and ecological adaptations to the underground conditions …

The genus Desmodillus is monospecific, consisting of only the Cape short-eared gerbil
(Desmodillus auricularis). Despite being widely distributed across southern Africa, previous …

The taxonomy of Gerbillus, the most speciose gerbil genus, is highly debated. Of particular
contention is the relationship of Dipodillus to Gerbillus; some consider it to be a closely …

Populations of broadly distributed species often exhibit geographic structuring, which is
sometimes reflected in phenotype. The monotypic Indian gerbil (Tatera indica) is an …

Blarinomys breviceps is a shrew-like mouse, morphologically divergent from the remaining
Akodontini (Cricetidae), and best known in the literature for its apparent fossorial …

This work proposes a functional data analysis approach for morphometrics in classifying
three shrew species (S. murinus, C. monticola, and C. malayana) from Peninsular Malaysia …

The paper presents the results of a comprehensive craniological analysis of muskrats
(Ondatra zibethicus Linnaeus, 1766) from five river basins of Ukraine: Dnipro (Lower Dnipro …