The functional diversity of marsupial limbs is influenced by both ecology and developmental constraint
Extant marsupials are less ecologically diverse than placentals, and this is reflected by placentals exhibiting a greater diversity of locomotor modes, including powered flight and fully aquatic swimming. One proposed explanation for this discrepancy is that the development of more disparate marsupi...
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Oxford University Press
2022
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