Effects of age and size in the ears of gekkonomorph lizards: Middle-ear morphology with evolutionary implications

Anatomical Record - Part A Discoveries in Molecular, Cellular, and Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 283, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 212-223

  Werner, Yehudah L ^a,b   Safford, Swawn D ^c   Seifan, Merav ^b   Saunders, James C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Directional asymmetry; Evolution; Geckos; Interspecific allometry; Lizards; Middle ear; Ontogenetic allometry; Sexual difference

Indexed keywords

ALLOMETRY; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY OSSICLE; BIRD; BODY HEIGHT; BODY SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRANIOFACIAL MORPHOLOGY; EARDRUM; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; INTRASPECIFIC VARIATION; LIZARD; MALE; NONHUMAN; ONTOGENY; PERINATAL PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TAXONOMY;

AGING; ANIMALS; BODY SIZE; EAR, MIDDLE; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; LIZARDS; MALE; SEX FACTORS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 14644407433     PISSN: 0003276X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ar.a.20142     Document Type: Article

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