Hypaxial motor patterns and the function of epipubic bones in primitive mammals

Science

Volumn 299, Issue 5605, 2003, Pages 400-402

  Reilly, Stephen M ^a   White, Thomas D ^b  

^a OHIO UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BUFFALO STATE COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BONE; MUSCLE; STIFFNESS;

EPIPUBIC BONES;

NATURAL SCIENCES;

BONE; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; LOCOMOTION; MAMMAL; MUSCLE;

ABDOMINAL WALL MUSCULATURE; ARTICLE; EPIPUBIC BONE; FEMUR; KINETICS; MAMMAL; MARSUPIAL; MONOTREMATE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBIC BONE; RECTUS ABDOMINIS MUSCLE; SUPERIOR OBLIQUE MUSCLE;

ABDOMINAL MUSCLES; ANIMALS; BIOMECHANICS; BONE AND BONES; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMUR; GAIT; HINDLIMB; LOCOMOTION; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; OPOSSUMS; RECTUS ABDOMINIS; THIGH;

MAMMALIA; METATHERIA; MONOTREMATA; RECTUS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0037449547     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1074905     Document Type: Article

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