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<journal-id>2007-3364</journal-id>
<journal-title><![CDATA[Therya]]></journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title><![CDATA[Therya]]></abbrev-journal-title>
<issn>2007-3364</issn>
<publisher>
<publisher-name><![CDATA[Asociación Mexicana de Mastozoología A.C.]]></publisher-name>
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<article-id>S2007-33642020000100001</article-id>
<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.12933/therya-20-872</article-id>
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<article-title xml:lang="en"><![CDATA[Epipubic bones of the Virginia Opossum (Didelphis virginiana) from México]]></article-title>
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<contrib-group>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Cervantes]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Fernando A.]]></given-names>
</name>
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<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Oviedo-Martínez]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Verónica]]></given-names>
</name>
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<aff id="Af1">
<institution><![CDATA[,Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México Colección Nacional de Mamíferos Departamento de Zoología]]></institution>
<addr-line><![CDATA[Ciudad de México ]]></addr-line>
<country>Mexico</country>
</aff>
<aff id="Af2">
<institution><![CDATA[,Universidad de Guadalajara Departamento de Botánica y Zoología Centro Universitario de Ciencias Biológicas y Agropecuarias]]></institution>
<addr-line><![CDATA[Zapopan Jalisco]]></addr-line>
<country>Mexico</country>
</aff>
<pub-date pub-type="pub">
<day>00</day>
<month>00</month>
<year>2020</year>
</pub-date>
<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>00</day>
<month>00</month>
<year>2020</year>
</pub-date>
<volume>11</volume>
<numero>1</numero>
<fpage>1</fpage>
<lpage>7</lpage>
<copyright-statement/>
<copyright-year/>
<self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&amp;pid=S2007-33642020000100001&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&amp;pid=S2007-33642020000100001&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_pdf&amp;pid=S2007-33642020000100001&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="en"><p><![CDATA[Abstract: The epipubic bones of the marsupials have been little studied and the meaning of their linear dimensions is poorly known. We therefore evaluated epipubic bone size of Virginia Opossum (Didelphis virginiana) from Mexico, and estimated their proportions relative to skull size of individuals. Results showed that males have larger skull and acetabulum size than females, epipubic bones of females are almost half the size of a female&#8217;s skull while that of the male is a little less than a third of the male cranial size. Therefore, epipubic bones are an important landmark of sexual dimorphism in D. virginiana, and our data may be useful to learn more about epipubic bones of other marsupials.]]></p></abstract>
<abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="es"><p><![CDATA[Resumen: Los huesos epipúbicos de los marsupiales han sido poco estudiados y se sabe poco del significado de sus dimensiones lineales. Por tanto, evaluamos el tamaño del hueso epipúbico en tlacuaches mexicanos (Didelphis virginiana) y calculamos su proporción en relación al tamaño craneal de los individuos. Confirmamos que los machos tienen mayor tamaño de cráneo que las hembras y encontramos lo mismo para el acetábulo, y que los huesos epipúbicos de las hembras son casi la mitad del tamaño del cráneo de una hembra, mientras que en machos son menos de un tercio del tamaño del cráneo. Por lo tanto, los huesos epipúbicos son un punto de referencia importante del dimorfismo sexual en D. virginiana, y nuestros datos pueden ser útiles para aprender más sobre los huesos epipúbicos de otros marsupiales.]]></p></abstract>
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<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[Didelphidae]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[Didelphimorphia]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[marsupium]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[morphometrics]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[pelvic girdle]]></kwd>
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