The muscles of mastication in the Caspian seal (Phoca caspica)

Anatomia, Histologia, Embryologia

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 262-265

  Endo, H ^a   Sakata, S ^a   Arai, T ^a   Miyazaki, N ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF BOTANY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; MALE; MASTICATORY MUSCLE; PHOCA; PHYSIOLOGY; SKULL; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; MALE; MASTICATORY MUSCLES; SEALS, EARLESS; SKULL; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0036376344     PISSN: 03402096     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1439-0264.2002.00372.x     Document Type: Article

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