Kieser J A, Groeneveld H T
Department of Oral Pathology, Witwatersrand University, Johannesburg, Republic of South Africa.
Folia Primatol (Basel). 1991;56(1):33-8. doi: 10.1159/000156525.
The allometric relations of postcanine tooth size were evaluated in a sample of 66 adult Galago crassicaudatus (34 males, 32 females). Postcanine tooth area and length (estimated from mesiodistal and buccolingual measurements of upper and lower cheek teeth) were scaled to 4 cranial measures: bimaxillary width, maxillo-alveolar length, mandibular length and bigonial width. Postcanine tooth size was also scaled to body weight, body length and total skull length. It was found that postcanine surface and length were significantly correlated to the cranial measures employed in females, showing positive allometric scaling. These correlations were, however, lacking in males. In neither sex was postcanine size found to be significantly correlated to body length or weight.
在一个由66只成年粗尾婴猴（34只雄性，32只雌性）组成的样本中，评估了犬齿后牙齿大小的异速生长关系。犬齿后牙齿面积和长度（根据上下颊齿的近远中径和颊舌径测量估算）与4种颅骨测量值进行了缩放：双颌宽度、上颌牙槽长度、下颌长度和下颌角宽度。犬齿后牙齿大小也与体重、体长和总颅骨长度进行了缩放。结果发现，犬齿后牙齿表面和长度与雌性所采用的颅骨测量值显著相关，呈现出正异速生长缩放。然而，在雄性中缺乏这些相关性。在两性中，均未发现犬齿后牙齿大小与体长或体重显著相关。
