Patterns of integration in the canine skull: an inside view into the relationship of the skull modules of domestic dogs and wolves.
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...There exist few empirical tests of this hypothesis and results on dogs are inconclusive, with reports that patterns of integration have remained stable despite the morphological diversification associated with domestication [9, 44], but also that high module disparity is associated with greater cranial shape variation in dogs compared to wolves [45]....
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...In fact, the dog skull (both domesticated and wild), and that of other canids is known to be modular with the anterior snout region forming a separate variational module from the brain case [12,14]....
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...Recently, the subject of modularity as it relates to dog domestication has been examined [56], and recent work on pig skull growth looked at modules of the skull and their differential growth [49]....
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...question of how shape variation in the skull of wolves, dingoes and domesticated dogs is organized [84]....
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