Article
No modularity at ventral level in the horse skull.
Anatomia, histologia, embryologia - 1 Sept 2021
Parés-Casanova Pere M
Abstract excerpt
Morphological integration and modularity are concepts that refer to the covariation level between the components of a structure. Morphological modules are independent subsets of highly correlated traits. The horse skull has been studied as a whole functional structure for decades, but the integrative approach towards quantitative examination of modules is scarce. We report here the first evaluation of cranial...
Topics
- Animals
- Biological Evolution
- Horses
- Phenotype
- Skull