Living in the danger zone: Exposure to predators and the evolution of spines and body armor in mammals

What doesn't kill you might make you stronger: functional basis for variation in body armour

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A species-level phylogeny of all extant and late Quaternary extinct mammals using a novel heuristic-hierarchical Bayesian approach

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ECOLOGICAL DRIVERS OF ANTIPREDATOR DEFENSES IN CARNIVORES

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Establishing macroecological trait datasets: digitalization, extrapolation, and validation of diet preferences in terrestrial mammals worldwide

(2014) Wilm Daniel Kissling et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Phylogenetic Relationships of New World Porcupines (Rodentia, Erethizontidae): Implications for Taxonomy, Morphological Evolution, and Biogeography

(2013) Robert S. Voss et al.   AMERICAN MUSEUM NOVITATES

Armed and dangerous: predicting the presence and function of defensive weaponry in mammals

(2011) Theodore Stankowich   ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR

BOLD COLORATION AND THE EVOLUTION OF APOSEMATISM IN TERRESTRIAL CARNIVORES

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Armadillo armor: Mechanical testing and micro-structural evaluation

(2011) Irene H. Chen et al.   Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials

Mechanical design of hedgehog spines and porcupine quills

(2010) J. F. V. Vincent et al.   JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY

Physiological convergence amongst ant-eating and termite-eating mammals

(2009) Brian K. McNab   JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY

Evolution of weaponry in female bovids

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The Evolution of Animal Weapons

(2008) Douglas J. Emlen   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Reverse Evolution of Armor Plates in the Threespine Stickleback

(2008) Jun Kitano et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Natural Selection on a Major Armor Gene in Threespine Stickleback

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