The Role of Mechanical Forces on the Patterning of the Avian Feather-Bearing Skin: A Biomechanical Analysis of the Integumentary Musculature in Birds

Journal of Experimental Zoology Part B: Molecular and Developmental Evolution

Volumn 298, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 123-139

  Homberger, Dominique G ^a   De Silva, Kumudini N ^b  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LOCK HAVEN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVES; GALLIFORMES;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOMECHANICS; BIRD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEATHER; HISTOLOGY; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SKIN;

ANIMALS; BIOMECHANICS; BIRDS; FEATHERS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; SKIN;

EID: 0142056040     PISSN: 0022104X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jez.b.30     Document Type: Article

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