… quantified functional associations of tooth shape with diet and identified a suite of functionally
relevant traits that can reasonably distinguish between diet types of murine rodents. On the …

… species-specific tooth shapes. In this study, in order to explore the developmental mechanisms
of tooth shape evolution, we compared the gene activities during shape development in …

… murine molars, crests connect cusps into transverse lophs with a character istic V shape (…
Vianey-Liaud, who provided us some of the fossil rodent teeth used in this study and advice …

… murine rodents did not develop such a strategy, possibly because of their relatively short
life spans. The teeth … both 3D geometric shape and crown topography for all the teeth in the …

… tooth shape, … murine rodents, the cusp rows of each tooth simply slide in the gutter delimited
by the cusp rows of the opposite tooth during antero-posterior chewing motions of the murine …

… rodent evolution, we examine evolutionary change of tooth shape in late Miocene Siwalik
murine rodents, … Tooth shapes of the two clades are similar at their sympatric origin but deviate …

… on murine rodent teeth are complemented by examples focusing on mouse mandibles.
Compared to teeth, which … In murine rodents, the molar tooth shape is determined during prenatal …

… functional components of teeth adapt in response to diet. Here, murine rodents (Old World
rats and mice) are used to quantify the relationship between diet and tooth shape and further, …

… Our results evidenced similar patterns in both species, size being more integrated than
shape among all the teeth, and both size and shape co-varying strongly between adjacent …

… of tooth number, and the role of stem cells in tooth development. Although the exact tooth
germ morphology may vary in different-shaped teeth, … in the primitive rodent Tribosphenomys. …