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Tooth wear as a means to quantify intra-specific variations in diet and chewing movements.
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- Reconstruction of feeding behaviour and diet in Devonian ctenacanth chondrichthyans using dental microwear texture and finite element analyses.Royal Society open science · 2025Article
- Bacterial Communities and Diversity of Western Ghats Soil: A Study of a Biodiversity Hotspot.Current microbiology · 2023Article
- Changing perspectives on early hominin diets.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023Article
- New quantitative method for dental wear analysis of small mammals.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Experimental approaches to assess the effect of composition of abrasives in the cause of dental microwear.Royal Society open science · 2022Article
- Species specificity and sexual dimorphism in tooth shape among the three sympatric haplochromine species in Lake Kivu cichlids.Ecology and evolution · 2020Article
- Incorporating intraspecific variation into dental microwear texture analysis.Journal of the Royal Society, Interface · 2019Article
- Complementary approaches to tooth wear analysis in Tritylodontidae (Synapsida, Mammaliamorpha) reveal a generalist diet.PloS one · 2019Article
- Molar Microwear of Narrow-Headed Vole (Microtus gregalis Pall., 1779) Depending on the Feed Abrasiveness.Doklady biological sciences : proceedings of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Biological sciences sections · 2018Article
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Abstract
In mammals, tooth function, and its efficiency, depends both on the mechanical properties of the food and on chewing dynamics. These aspects have rarely been studied in combination and/or at the intra-specific level. Here we applied 3D dental surface texture analysis to a sample of field voles (Microtus agrestis) trapped from Finnish Lapland at different seasons and localities to test for inter-population variations. We also explored intra-individual variation in chewing dynamics by analysing two facets on the second upper molars. Our results confirm that the two localities have similar environments and that the voles feed on the same items there. On the other hand, the texture data suggest that diets are seasonally variable, probably due to varying concentrations of abrasives. Lastly, the textures on the buccal facets are more isotropic and their direction deviates more from the mesial chewing direction than the lingual facets. We interpret these results as reflecting food, rather than chewing, movements, where food particles are more guided on the lingual side of the molars. This has implications for the application of dental microwear analysis to fossils: only homologous facets can be compared, even when the molar row seems to constitute a functional unit.
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