Finite-element analysis of biting behavior and bone stress in the facial skeletons of bats

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

Volumn 283, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 319-330

  Dumont, Elizabeth R ^a   Piccirillo, Justin ^b   Grosse, Ian R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b University of Massachusetts   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Biting behavior; Bone stress; Chiroptera; Finite element analysis

Indexed keywords

ARTIBEUS JAMAICENSIS; BAT; BIOMECHANICS; BITE; BONE STRESS; BRAIN; CONFERENCE PAPER; CRANIOFACIAL MORPHOLOGY; CYNOPTERUS BRACHYOTIS; EVOLUTION; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; FACIAL BONE; FEEDING; FEEDING APPARATUS; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; MASTICATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY SYSTEM;

ANIMALS; BITE FORCE; CHIROPTERA; DIET; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; FRUIT; MASTICATION; SKULL; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; WEIGHT-BEARING;

ARTIBEUS; ARTIBEUS JAMAICENSIS; CHIROPTERA; CYNOPTERUS; CYNOPTERUS BRACHYOTIS; MAMMALIA;

EID: 16444386663     PISSN: 0003276X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ar.a.20165     Document Type: Conference Paper

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