Tongue flicking in agamid lizards: Morphology, kinematics, and muscle activity patterns

Anatomical Record

Volumn 252, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 102-116

  Herrel, Anthony ^a   Timmermans, Jean Pierre ^a   De Vree, Frits ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Chemical prey discrimination; EMG; Kinematics; Morphology; Plocederma stellio; Tongue flicking; Uromastix acanthinurus

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHEMOSENSITIVITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEEDING; KINESIOLOGY; LIZARD; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TONGUE; VOLUNTARY MOVEMENT;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; EATING; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOLUTION; JAW; LIZARDS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MOUTH; MOVEMENT; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NECK MUSCLES; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TONGUE; VIDEO RECORDING;

AGAMIDAE; ANIMALIA; PLOCEDERMA; PLOCEDERMA STELLIO; SERPENTES; SQUAMATA; UROMASTIX; UROMASTYX ACANTHINURA;

EID: 0031660469     PISSN: 0003276X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0185(199809)252:1<102::AID-AR9>3.0.CO;2-Y     Document Type: Article

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