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Hystricognathi

Known as: Hystricomorpha 
National Institutes of Health

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Highly Cited
2013
Highly Cited
2013
The Role of Historical Barriers in the Diversification Processes in Open Vegetation Formations during the Miocene/Pliocene Using an Ancient Rodent Lineage as a Model
The Neotropics harbors a high diversity of species and several hypotheses have been proposed to account for this pattern. However… 
2010
2010
Functional Anatomy of Incisal Biting in Aplodontia rufa and Sciuromorph Rodents – Part 1: Masticatory Muscles, Skull Shape and Digging
Traditionally, rodents have been grouped into suborders distinguished largely on the basis of characteristics of the jaw adductor… 
Highly Cited
2006
Highly Cited
2006
Shortwave visual sensitivity in tree and flying squirrels reflects changes in lifestyle
Highly Cited
2001
Highly Cited
2001
From the Old World to the New World: a molecular chronicle of the phylogeny and biogeography of hystricognath rodents.
Hystricognath rodents include Old World Phiomorpha and New World Caviomorpha. These two groups have an enigmatic biogeographical… 
Highly Cited
2000
Highly Cited
2000
Variance of molecular datings, evolution of rodents and the phylogenetic affinities between Ctenodactylidae and Hystricognathi
The von Willebrand factor (vWF) gene has been used to understand the origin and timing of Rodentia evolution in the context of… 
Highly Cited
1992
Highly Cited
1992
The molecular taxonomy and evolution of the guinea pig.
On the basis of 18 protein sequences totaling 2,413 aligned amino acid sites, it is suggested that the guinea pigs and the… 
Review
1972
Review
1972
Comparative myology of jaw, hyoid, and pectoral appendicular regions of New and Old World hystricomorph rodents. Bulletin of the AMNH ; v. 147, article 3
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1971
1971
Unusually large sex chromosomes: new methods of measuring and description of karyotypes of six rodents (Myomorpha and Hystricomorpha) and one lagomorph (Ochontonidae).
Chromosome studies of six rodents, of which three have unusually large X chromosomes, and one lagomorph have been made. Two new… 
1969
1969
The fetal membranes of Pedetes capensis, and their taxonomic significance.
Implantation in Pedetes capensis is superficial and antimesometrial with the embryonic disc mesometrially oriented. As the… 
Highly Cited
1966
Highly Cited
1966
Curiosity in zoo animals.
The reactions of more than 200 zoo animals to a standardized set of novel objects were recorded and quantified. Our results… 
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