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Fig. 2.

From: Sensory adaptations reshaped intrinsic factors underlying morphological diversification in bats

Fig. 2.

Allometry of the bat cranium (a) and mandible (b) across 202 and 191 bat species, respectively. Shape variation with allometry is plotted as the score of the common allometric component vs. the log of centroid size for each structure. Landmark configurations show the calculated shape of the skull and mandible, respectively, in lateral view based on allometric trends at the largest and smallest centroid size in each dataset. Skull images provide examples of species with some of the largest and smallest crania and mandibles; crania: Pteropus vampyrus (top) and Craseonycteris thonglongyai (bottom); mandibles: Pteropus poliocephalus (top) and Craseonycteris thonglongyai (bottom)

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