Observations on the muscles of the eye of the bowhead whale, Balaena mysticetus

Anatomical Record

Volumn 259, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 189-204

  Zhu, Qian ^a   Hillmann, Daniel John ^b   Henk, William George ^b  

^a SHANDONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Balaena mysticetus; Bowhead whale; Cetacea; Eyeball; Eyelids; Morphology; Muscle

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; EXTRAOCULAR MUSCLE; EYE DEVELOPMENT; EYELID MOVEMENT; EYELID MUSCLE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WHALE;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; EYE; EYE MOVEMENTS; EYELIDS; FEMALE; MALE; OCULOMOTOR MUSCLES; TERMINOLOGY; WHALES;

ANIMALIA; BALAENA MYSTICETUS; CETACEA; MAMMALIA; RECTUS;

EID: 0034212546     PISSN: 0003276X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0185(20000601)259:2<189::AID-AR9>3.0.CO;2-H     Document Type: Article

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