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Fig. 11 | BMC Ecology and Evolution

Fig. 11

From: Trophic specialisation reflected by radular tooth material properties in an “ancient” Lake Tanganyikan gastropod species flock

Fig. 11

Results of nanoindentation. Median of Young’s modulus (GPa) of the central, lateral, and marginal tooth cusps for each species correlated with the preferred feeding substrate (circle = mud, hexagon = sand, square = plants, triangle = rock) against the background of a phylogenetic tree (Bayesian). Taxa without molecular information were allocated to groups based on morphological analyses from relevant literature. Reconstructed ancestral feeding substrate of the lower taxonomic levels is plotted next to the nodes

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