… Unlike most mammals, toothed whale (Odontoceti) skulls … morphometrics and phylogenetic
comparative methods to … and orbit, possibly reflecting preservational deformation. Asymmetry …

… Sensory system anatomy is fabulously complex and reflects … biosonar apparatus in toothed
whales (Cetacea: Odontoceti), either … The bony labyrinth, contained within a petrosal bone of …

… radiation of toothed whales across multiple habitats. Here we … (A) Phylogenetic tree of the
toothed whale species included … positive selection and accelerated evolution that could reflect …

… of a large number of habitats, ranging from the tropics to Polar … In this way, the Procrustes
variance reflects only variation … 2) Does morphological variation exhibit a strong phylogenetic …

… and phylogeny of modern whales and dolphins, and they can also be used to infer the habitat
preferences and … The low-frequency hearing of baleen whales, in contrast, might reflect the …

… Bony labyrinth of the fin whale, Balaenoptera physalus (… This is reflected in the absence of
clear taxonomic groupings … Unlike toothed whales, mysticetes show no obvious phylogenetic, …

… no clear phylogenetic-based grouping, suggesting that tooth … the observed enamel
simplification reflected possible functional … , body mass, feeding strategies and habitat, with the …

… whales have retained this anatomy, and toothed whales lack … whales (Balaena mysticetus),
a species of baleen whale, … They found that once body mass and phylogeny are accounted for…

… We focus below on the periotics and their bony labyrinths because … Our phylogenetic analysis
returned 216 equally-… This pattern reflects a global early Miocene ‘dark age’ for mysticetes, …

… Whereas the majority of extant toothed whales possess homodont … the nine measurements
for each bony labyrinth of SNSB-BSPG … pollerspoecki, both visually and as reflected in the …