The evolution of hindlimb tendons and muscles on the line to crown-group birds

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - A Molecular and Integrative Physiology

Volumn 133, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 1051-1086

  Hutchinson, John R ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bird; Dinosaur; Evolution; Fossil; Locomotion; Muscle; Sesamoid; Tendon

Indexed keywords

ANATOMY; BIRD; CONFERENCE PAPER; DINOSAUR; EVOLUTION; FOSSIL; HAMSTRING; HINDLIMB; HIP; KNEE; LEG; MUSCLE; MUSCLE FUNCTION; NONHUMAN; OSSIFICATION; PATELLA; TENDON;

AVES; DINOSAURIA;

EID: 0036905357     PISSN: 10956433     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1095-6433(02)00158-7     Document Type: Conference Paper

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