Daniela E. Winkler

TL;DR: It is demonstrated that not only phytolith content but also properties such as water content can significantly affect plant abrasiveness, even to such an extent that wear patterns characteristic for dietary traits (browser–grazer differences) become indistinguishable.

TL;DR: This study shows that despite short food–tooth interaction, dental surface texture parameters enable discrimination of several feeding strategies in lepidosaurs, which opens new research avenues to assess diet in a broad variety of extant and extinct non-mammalian taxa including dinosaurs and early synapsids.

TL;DR: Dental microwear texture analysis shows the size of abrasives in the herbivore diet has a greater influence on dental microwear than their concentration, with different sizes creating opposing effects in terms of surface roughness.

TL;DR: In this article, the maxillary and mandibular second molar of 28 goats (Capra aegagrus hircus) were submitted to dental microwear texture analysis (DMTA).

TL;DR: In this article, a terminal feeding experiment with 72 rats was conducted to test how quickly DMTs form and pre-existing ones are overwritten in the presence of a diet switch from pelleted to standard pellet.