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... of long-chain methyl ketones (Mason et al., 1 989 ). Females of related groups of snakes have some of the same methyl ketones as well as variations of the com- Linzey: Vertebrate Biology 8. Reptiles: ... able to feed effectively on cones. Robbins, 1932 Griscom, 1937 Benkman, 1 987 ; 1 988 a, b; 1993 Linzey: Vertebrate Biology 8. Reptiles: Morphology, Reproduction, and Developmen...

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... be found in Eldredge and Cracraft (l 980 ), Nelson and Platnick (1 981 ), Halstead (1 982 ), Nelson (1 984 ), Ghiselin (1 984 ), Abbott et al. (1 985 ), and Hull (1 988 ). To the extent possible, classifications ... class of vertebrates are given in Chapters 4–6, 7, and 9. Linzey: Vertebrate Biology 2. Systematics and Vertebrate Evolution Text © The McGraw−Hill Companies, 2003 44 Cha...

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... et al. (1975). Endocrine System Since many of the endocrine glands and hormones are sim- ilar in the different groups of vertebrates, they will be dis- cussed here. In the other vertebrate groups, ... al., 1995 Erdmann et al., 19 98 Pouyard et al., 1999 BIO-NOTE 5.3 Coelacanths Linzey: Vertebrate Biology 5. Gnathostome Fishes Text © The McGraw−Hill Companies, 2003 100 Chapter Five...

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... 19 78 1979 1 980 1 981 1 982 1 983 1 984 1 985 1 986 1 987 1 988 1 989 1990 Outside FIGURE 10.5 White-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus texanus) population estimates inside and outside the coyote-proof ... Henttonen, 1 988 ). High predation pressure normally prevents small rodents from population cycling by Years Hare Lynx Number (thousands) 140 120 100 80 60 40 20 184 5 185 5 186 5 18...

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... must be Number of new mammal species named 176 0-7 0 0 100 200 300 400 500 600 181 0-2 0 186 0-7 0 191 0-2 0 196 0-7 0 1 98 0-9 0 FIGURE 1.24 The number of new mammal species discovered (some resulting from taxonomic ... by other sala- manders and frogs. In some cases, the male parent guards the eggs. Altricial One-day-old meadowlark Precocial One-day-old ruffed grouse FIGURE 1...

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... primitive Linzey: Vertebrate Biology 4. Early Chordates and Jawless Fishes Text © The McGraw−Hill Companies, 2003 Early Chordates and Jawless Fishes 81 (a) (b) (a) Arandaspis, a 470-million-year-old ... However, because they have a cra- Linzey: Vertebrate Biology 4. Early Chordates and Jawless Fishes Text © The McGraw−Hill Companies, 2003 78 Chapter Four BIO-NOTE 4.1 Homeo...

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... and Trueb, 1 986 ). Salamander-like fossil amphibians, the albanerpeton- tids, are known from the mid-Jurassic to mid-Tertiary (Miocene epoch) across North America, Europe, and Cen- tral Asia (McGowan ... forms was estab- lished by the end of the Devonian. Two other groups of labyrinthodonts evolved: the tem- nospondyls and the anthracosaurs. Members of the order Tem- Linzey: Vertebrate B...

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... males. (a) 6 0- to 80 -ton titanosaur; (b) 55-ton Supersaurus; (c) 45-ton Brachiosaurus (=Ultrasaurus); (d) 13-ton Shantungosaurus; (e) 6-ton Triceratops; (f) 7-ton Tyrannosaurus; (g) 16-ton Indricotherium; ... was dis- covered in 19 78, in Montana (Horner, 1 984 ; Horner and Gorman, 1 988 ). The nest was approximately 1 .8 m in diameter and 0.9 m deep and contained the fossilized remain...

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... artic- ulation permits the typical vertical (up-and-down) move- ment of the head, whereas the atlas–axis articulation allows lateral (side-to-side) movements of the head. Linzey: Vertebrate Biology ... mid-1 980 s and Eosimias in 1994, the oldest well-documented anthropoids came from 36-million-year-old rocks in Egypt, suggesting that such creatures arose in Africa; however, the Eosimias...

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... the 10,000-km trek to Baja—a distance spanning more than one-third of the globe—would rank among the longest docu- mented marine vertebrate migrations. Bowen, 1995 Linzey: Vertebrate Biology 11. ... (Jaeger and Gergits, 1979; Jaeger et al., 1 986 ; Horne and Jaeger, 1 988 ) and defend these feed- ing territories ( Jaeger et al., 1 982 ; Horne, 1 988 ; Mathis, 1 989 , 1990a). Territoria...

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