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Emily Troyer
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Postdoc at University of Michigan. PhD from the University of Oklahoma. My research focuses on the morphological evolution of living and fossil fishes.
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So...after running a variety of analyses to quantify rates of skull shape evolution and morphological disparity, and also testing for patterns of skull modularity/integration...what did we find?? 8/15

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...Beaks are a big deal! Beaked species exhibit significantly greater shape disparity than non-beaked species and occupy a separate area of morphospace. 9/15

Phylomorphospace of 176 tetraodontiform species, depicting which species have beaks (in blue) and which do not (orange)
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Emily Troyer
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Postdoc at University of Michigan. PhD from the University of Oklahoma. My research focuses on the morphological evolution of living and fossil fishes.
338 followers231 following183 posts