Ontogenetic allometry in the locomotor skeleton of specialized half-bounding mammals

Journal of Zoology

Volumn 258, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 485-495

  Lammers, Andrew R ^a,b   German, Rebecca Z ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

^b OHIO UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Allometry; Bone growth; Half bound; Limbs; Locomotion; Mammals

Indexed keywords

ALLOMETRY; BONE; LOCOMOTION; ONTOGENY; SKELETON; SPECIALIZATION;

CHINCHILLA LANIGERA; ELAGATIS; MAMMALIA; MONODELPHIS; MONODELPHIS DOMESTICA; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS; RATTUS; RATTUS NORVEGICUS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0036910512     PISSN: 09528369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0952836902001644     Document Type: Article

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