Adaptation in the vertebral column: A comparative study of patterns of metameric variation in seven species of small mammals

Journal of Anatomy

Volumn 194, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 207-214

  Kida, M Y ^b   Johnson, D R ^a   McAndrew, T J ^b   O'Higgins, P ^b  

^a Medical and Dental Building   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Locomotion; Osteology; Spine

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; LIMB; LOCOMOTION; MAMMAL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPINE; VERTEBRA;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; GERBILLINAE; HUMERUS; LOCOMOTION; MAMMALS; MICE; MURIDAE; RABBITS; RATS; SCIURIDAE; SHREWS; SPINAL CANAL; SPINE;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0032903120     PISSN: 00218782     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0021878298004518     Document Type: Article

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