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<a href="http://doi.org/10.1093/icb/icw119" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">http://doi.org/10.1093/icb/icw119</a>
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1370–1384
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6
Volume
56
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Aquatic Habits of Cetacean Ancestors: Integrating Bone Microanatomy and Stable Isotopes.
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Integrative and comparative biology
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2016
2016-12
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*Ecosystem; Animals; Bone and Bones/anatomy & histology/metabolism; Cetacea/*physiology; Isotope Labeling; Isotopes/metabolism
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Cooper Lisa Noelle; Clementz Mark T; Usip Sharon; Bajpai Sunil; Hussain S Taseer; Hieronymus Tobin L
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The earliest cetaceans were interpreted as semi-aquatic based on the presence of thickened bones and stable oxygen isotopes in tooth enamel. However, the origin of aquatic behaviors in cetacean relatives (e.g., raoellids, anthracotheres) remains unclear. This study reconstructs the origins of aquatic behaviors based on long bone microanatomy and stable oxygen isotopes of tooth enamel in modern and extinct cetartiodactylans. Our findings are congruent with published accounts that microanatomy can be a reliable indicator of aquatic behaviors in taxa that are obligatorily aquatic, and also highlight that some "semi-aquatic" behaviors (fleeing into the water to escape predation) may have a stronger relationship to bone microanatomy than others (herbivory in near-shore aquatic settings). Bone microanatomy is best considered with other lines of information in the land-to-sea transition of cetaceans, such as stable isotopes. This study extends our understanding of the progression of skeletal phenotypes associated with habitat shifts in the relatives of cetaceans.
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<a href="http://doi.org/10.1093/icb/icw119" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">10.1093/icb/icw119</a>
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*Ecosystem
2016
Animals
Bajpai Sunil
Bone and Bones/anatomy & histology/metabolism
Cetacea/*physiology
Clementz Mark T
Cooper Lisa Noelle
Department of Anatomy & Neurobiology
Hieronymus Tobin L
Hussain S Taseer
Integrative and comparative biology
Isotope Labeling
Isotopes/metabolism
NEOMED College of Medicine
Usip Sharon