Functional analysis of the foot and ankle myology of gibbons and bonobos

Journal of Anatomy

Volumn 206, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 453-476

  Vereecke, Evie E ^a   D'Août, Kristiaan ^a   Payne, Rachel ^b   Aerts, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^b ROYAL VETERINARY COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ankle; Bonobo; Foot myology; Gibbon; Locomotion

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL ANATOMY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANKLE; ARTICLE; CADAVER; CALCULATION; COMPARATIVE ANATOMY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXTENSOR MUSCLE; FEMALE; FLEXOR MUSCLE; FOOT; FOOT SOLE; FOSSIL; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HAPLORHINI; HINDLIMB; HOMINID; HUMAN; HUMAN VERSUS ANIMAL COMPARISON; LEG MUSCLE; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MUSCLE LENGTH; MUSCLE MASS; NONHUMAN; PAN PANISCUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; VELOCITY; WALKING;

ANIMALS; ANKLE; FOOT; HUMANS; HYLOBATES; LOCOMOTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PAN PANISCUS;

ALOCASIA MACRORRHIZOS; HOMINIDAE; HYLOBATES SP.; HYLOBATIDAE; PAN PANISCUS;

EID: 19044395652     PISSN: 00218782     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-7580.2005.00412.x     Document Type: Article

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