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Comparative analysis of vestibular ecomorphology in birds

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The bony labyrinth of vertebrates houses the semicircular canals. These sense rotational accelerations of the head and play an essential role in gaze stabilisation during locomotion. The sizes and shapes of the semicircular canals have hypothesised relationships to agility and locomotory modes in many groups, including birds, and a burgeoning palaeontological literature seeks to make ecological interpretations from the morphology of the labyrinth in extinct species. Rigorous tests of form–fun...

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Published
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Peer reviewed

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10.1111/joa.12726

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University of Oxford
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St Edmund Hall
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University of Oxford
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MPLS
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Earth Sciences
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677774(ERC Starting Grant: TEMPO
Publisher:
Wiley Publisher's website
Journal:
Journal of Anatomy Journal website
Volume:
231
Issue:
6
Pages:
990-1018
Publication date:
2017-11-20
Acceptance date:
2017-09-18
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1469-7580
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pubs:729320
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uuid:a6b0eb65-c42a-4648-ad61-fa3b2d02caba
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729320
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2017-09-19

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