Integration of skeletal traits in some passerines: impact (or the lack thereof) of body mass, phylogeny, diet and habitat.

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Morphological integration of the bird skeleton is of great interest because it relates to issues of specialization, plasticity, and rate of evolutionary transformations of a skeleton as a whole and its anatomical regions. Despite growing interest, the integration and modularity of the skeleton of birds, in general, remain little studied. We evaluated the change of relative sizes and integration of shapes of...

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