Tooth shape formation and tooth renewal: evolving with the same signals

J Jernvall, I Thesleff - Development, 2012 - journals.biologists.com
Teeth are found in almost all vertebrates, and they therefore provide a general paradigm for
the study of epithelial organ development and evolution. Here, we review the developmental …

[HTML][HTML] Mammalian dental function and wear: a review

PS Ungar - Biosurface and Biotribology, 2015 - Elsevier
This paper presents a brief synopsis of work on relationships between mammalian tooth
form and function, and considers the role of dental wear in studies of mammal teeth …

[BOK][B] Mammal teeth: origin, evolution, and diversity

PS Ungar - 2010 - books.google.com
Winner, 2010 PROSE Award for Excellence in the Biological Sciences. Professional and
Scholarly Publishing division of the Association of American Publishers In this unique book …

Predicting evolutionary patterns of mammalian teeth from development

KD Kavanagh, AR Evans, J Jernvall - Nature, 2007 - nature.com
One motivation in the study of development is the discovery of mechanisms that may guide
evolutionary change. Here we report how development governs relative size and number of …

Morphosource: archiving and sharing 3-D digital specimen data

DM Boyer, GF Gunnell, S Kaufman… - The Paleontological …, 2016 - cambridge.org
Advancement of understanding in paleontology and biology has always been hindered by
difficulty in accessing comparative data. With current and burgeoning technology, the …

Adaptive radiation of multituberculate mammals before the extinction of dinosaurs

GP Wilson, AR Evans, IJ Corfe, PD Smits, M Fortelius… - Nature, 2012 - nature.com
Abstract The Cretaceous–Paleogene mass extinction approximately 66 million years ago is
conventionally thought to have been a turning point in mammalian evolution,. Prior to that …

Rodent systematics in an age of discovery: recent advances and prospects

G D'Elía, PH Fabre, EP Lessa - Journal of Mammalogy, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Abstract With almost 2,600 species, Rodentia is the most diverse order of mammals. Here,
we provide an overview of changes in our understanding of the systematics of living rodents …

Cranial morphology and dietary habits of rodents

JX Samuels - Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 2009 - academic.oup.com
Rodents are important components of nearly every terrestrial ecosystem and display
considerable ecological diversity. Nevertheless, a lack of data on the ecomorphology of …

Comparing Dirichlet normal surface energy of tooth crowns, a new technique of molar shape quantification for dietary inference, with previous methods in isolation and …

JM Bunn, DM Boyer, Y Lipman… - American journal of …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Inferred dietary preference is a major component of paleoecologies of extinct primates.
Molar occlusal shape correlates with diet in living mammals, so teeth are a potentially useful …

Relief index of second mandibular molars is a correlate of diet among prosimian primates and other euarchontan mammals

DM Boyer - Journal of human evolution, 2008 - Elsevier
This study describes and tests a new method of calculating a shape metric known as the
relief index (RFI) on lower second molars of extant euarchontan mammals, including …