A comparative analysis of craniological variability of Eurasian (sable and pine marten) and North American (American marten) species of the Martes genus
| Autor: | M. N. Ranyuk, V. G. Monakhov |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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0106 biological sciences
0301 basic medicine Ecology Interspecific competition Biology 010603 evolutionary biology 01 natural sciences General Biochemistry Genetics and Molecular Biology 03 medical and health sciences 030104 developmental biology Genus biology.animal General Agricultural and Biological Sciences Marten |
| Zdroj: | Biology Bulletin. 43:893-903 |
| ISSN: | 1608-3059 1062-3590 |
| DOI: | 10.1134/s1062359016080148 |
| Popis: | This paper studies the craniological variability of closely related species—the pine marten Martes martes, the American marten M. americana, and the sable M. zibellina. The study included the data on 22 nonmetric characters of skulls in 2344 individuals. The studied Martes species were revealed to have an evident species-specific manifestation of the investigated craniological characters. Sables stand apart most of all in the interspecific comparison of populations. The degree of epigenetic variability is somewhat higher in the sable than in the pine marten. The American marten significantly differs from Eurasian species in the manifestation of the nonmetric skull characters, which is noted when analyzing even a small number of samples. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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