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Competing Interests

The authors declare they have no competing interests.

Author Contributions

Sive Finlay conceived and designed the experiments, performed the experiments, analyzed the data, wrote the paper, prepared figures and/or tables, reviewed drafts of the paper.

Natalie Cooper conceived and designed the experiments, wrote the paper, reviewed drafts of the paper.

Data Deposition

The following information was supplied regarding the deposition of related data:

1) "Insectivore" mammal skulls, dorsal view. http: //dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.705863.

2) "Insectivore" mammal skulls, lateral view. http: //dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.715890.

3) "Insectivore" mammal skulls, ventral view. http: //dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.715841.

Funding

This work was funded by an Irish Research Council EMBARK Initiative Postgraduate Scholarship (SF) and a European Commission CORDIS Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) Marie Curie CIG grant (proposal number: 321696; NC). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.


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