More injuries in left-footed individual lizards and Sphenodon

Journal of Zoology

Volumn 260, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 129-144

  Seligmann, Hervé ^a,c   Beiles, Avigdor ^b   Werner, Yehudah L ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^c LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Directional asymmetry; Handedness; Injury; Limb reduction; Regulation of development; Subdigital lamellae; Tail autotomy; Unsuccessful predation

Indexed keywords

ASYMMETRY; INJURY; LIZARD; MORPHOLOGY;

AMPHIBIA; ANGUIDAE; HOMO; HOMO SAPIENS; REPTILIA; SCINCIDAE; SPHENODON; SQUAMATA;

EID: 0038379143     PISSN: 09528369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0952836903003558     Document Type: Article

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