Evolutionary and Biological Implications of Dental Mesial Drift in Rodents: The Case of the Ctenodactylidae (Rodentia, Mammalia)

Helder Gomes Rodrigues; Floréal Solé; Cyril Charles; Paul Tafforeau; Monique Vianey-Liaud; Laurent Viriot

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0050197

Loading metrics

Open Access

Peer-reviewed

Research Article

Evolutionary and Biological Implications of Dental Mesial Drift in Rodents: The Case of the Ctenodactylidae (Rodentia, Mammalia)

Helder Gomes Rodrigues ,

* E-mail: helder.gomes.rodrigues@ens-lyon.fr (HGR); Laurent.Viriot@ens-lyon.fr (LV)

Affiliation Team “Evo-Devo of Vertebrate Dentition”, Institut de Génomique Fonctionnelle de Lyon, Unité Mixte de Recherche 5242 Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Lyon, France
⨯
Floréal Solé,

Current address: Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Direction Earth and History of Life, Brussels, Belgium

Affiliation Team “Evo-Devo of Vertebrate Dentition”, Institut de Génomique Fonctionnelle de Lyon, Unité Mixte de Recherche 5242 Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Lyon, France
⨯
Cyril Charles,

Affiliation Team “Evo-Devo of Vertebrate Dentition”, Institut de Génomique Fonctionnelle de Lyon, Unité Mixte de Recherche 5242 Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Lyon, France
⨯
Paul Tafforeau,

Affiliation European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, Grenoble, France
⨯
Monique Vianey-Liaud,

Affiliation Laboratoire de Paléontologie, Institut des Sciences de l’Évolution de Montpellier, Unité Mixte de Recherche 5554 Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Université Montpellier 2, Montpellier, France
⨯
Laurent Viriot

* E-mail: helder.gomes.rodrigues@ens-lyon.fr (HGR); Laurent.Viriot@ens-lyon.fr (LV)

Affiliation Team “Evo-Devo of Vertebrate Dentition”, Institut de Génomique Fonctionnelle de Lyon, Unité Mixte de Recherche 5242 Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Lyon, France
⨯

Evolutionary and Biological Implications of Dental Mesial Drift in Rodents: The Case of the Ctenodactylidae (Rodentia, Mammalia)

Helder Gomes Rodrigues,
Floréal Solé,
Cyril Charles,
Paul Tafforeau,
Monique Vianey-Liaud,
Laurent Viriot

Published: November 21, 2012
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0050197

Reader Comments (0)

Post a new comment on this article

Subject Areas
?

For more information about PLOS Subject Areas, click here.
We want your feedback. Do these Subject Areas make sense for this article? Click the target next to the incorrect Subject Area and let us know. Thanks for your help!

Dentition
Is the Subject Area "Dentition" applicable to this article?

Thanks for your feedback.
Molars
Is the Subject Area "Molars" applicable to this article?

Thanks for your feedback.
Rodents
Is the Subject Area "Rodents" applicable to this article?

Thanks for your feedback.
Skull
Is the Subject Area "Skull" applicable to this article?

Thanks for your feedback.
Tooth eruption
Is the Subject Area "Tooth eruption" applicable to this article?

Thanks for your feedback.
Evolutionary developmental biology
Is the Subject Area "Evolutionary developmental biology" applicable to this article?

Thanks for your feedback.
Synchrotrons
Is the Subject Area "Synchrotrons" applicable to this article?

Thanks for your feedback.
Alveolar bone
Is the Subject Area "Alveolar bone" applicable to this article?

Thanks for your feedback.