2015
DOI: 10.7717/peerj.1358
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Mammalian bone palaeohistology: a survey and new data with emphasis on island forms

Abstract: The interest in mammalian palaeohistology has increased dramatically in the last two decades. Starting in 1849 via descriptive approaches, it has been demonstrated that bone tissue and vascularisation types correlate with several biological variables such as ontogenetic stage, growth rate, and ecology. Mammalian bone displays a large variety of bone tissues and vascularisation patterns reaching from lamellar or parallel-fibred to fibrolamellar or woven-fibred bone, depending on taxon and individual age. Here w… Show more

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“…In the case of the tibiae, significant differences were not found between subspecies, either in total growth areas (P = 0.617) or in single areas. We calculated the growth rates for each growth zone both for tibia and femur using bone growth areas, instead of distance between BGMs (Mar ın- Moratalla et al 2013Moratalla et al , 2014Kolb et al 2015b;Jordana et al 2016). It is important to highlight that specimens from Lleida exhibited a different growth pattern than the other two populations, both in femora ( Fig.…”
Section: Growth Curvesmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In the case of the tibiae, significant differences were not found between subspecies, either in total growth areas (P = 0.617) or in single areas. We calculated the growth rates for each growth zone both for tibia and femur using bone growth areas, instead of distance between BGMs (Mar ın- Moratalla et al 2013Moratalla et al , 2014Kolb et al 2015b;Jordana et al 2016). It is important to highlight that specimens from Lleida exhibited a different growth pattern than the other two populations, both in femora ( Fig.…”
Section: Growth Curvesmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Bone remodeling is a lifelong process that influences bone structure until the oldest ages (Amprino & Godina, 1947). Intensity of remodeling and the resulting secondary osteons density varies among mammals, from no osteons at their long bone midshaft to a large number of them, which form in the latter case dense Haversian tissue (Kolb et al 2015). Studies on human long bones indicate that young, growing individuals (before ca.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Nevertheless, the fact that some analyses successfully distinguished ecological groups might indicate that broad differences of bone structure among lifestyles can exceed, at least in some cases, individual variability. Because fossil bone cross-sections at mid-diaphysis have been produced for over a century and a half (Kolb et al 2015), a large number of mid-diaphyseal data related to extinct taxa have been acquired, and successfully exploited for palaeobiological inferences (e.g., Germain & Laurin, 2005). Fossil three-dimensional (3D) trabecular architecture has been much less investigated, as, to our knowledge, only few studies have been published, which are all focussing on primates (DeSilva & Devlin 2012; Barak et al 2013;Su et al 2013;Skinner et al 2015;Su & Carlson 2017;Ryan et al 2018).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%