Lineage-Specific Responses of Tooth Shape in Murine Rodents (Murinae, Rodentia) to Late Miocene Dietary Change in the Siwaliks of Pakistan

Yuri Kimura; Louis L. Jacobs; Lawrence J. Flynn

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0076070

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Lineage-Specific Responses of Tooth Shape in Murine Rodents (Murinae, Rodentia) to Late Miocene Dietary Change in the Siwaliks of Pakistan

Yuri Kimura ,

* E-mail: ykimura@mail.smu.edu

Affiliations Roy M. Huffington Department of Earth Sciences, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas, United States of America, Peabody Museum and Department of Human Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
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Louis L. Jacobs,

Affiliation Roy M. Huffington Department of Earth Sciences, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas, United States of America
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Lawrence J. Flynn

Affiliation Peabody Museum and Department of Human Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
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Lineage-Specific Responses of Tooth Shape in Murine Rodents (Murinae, Rodentia) to Late Miocene Dietary Change in the Siwaliks of Pakistan

Yuri Kimura,
Louis L. Jacobs,
Lawrence J. Flynn

Published: October 14, 2013
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0076070

About the Authors

Yuri Kimura

* E-mail: ykimura@mail.smu.edu

Affiliations Roy M. Huffington Department of Earth Sciences, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas, United States of America, Peabody Museum and Department of Human Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Louis L. Jacobs

Affiliation Roy M. Huffington Department of Earth Sciences, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas, United States of America

Lawrence J. Flynn

Affiliation Peabody Museum and Department of Human Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YK LLJ LJF. Performed the experiments: YK. Analyzed the data: YK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YK. Wrote the paper: YK LLJ LJF.

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