Paleontology: Developmental plasticity in the life history of a prosauropod dinosaur

Science

Volumn 310, Issue 5755, 2005, Pages 1800-1802

  Sander, P Martin ^a   Klein, Nicole ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BONE; GENETIC ENGINEERING; HISTOLOGY; PLASTICITY;

ECTOTHERMIC REPTILES; FIBROLAMELLAR BONE; LIFE HISTORY; PROSAUROPOD PLATEOSAURUS ENGELHARDTI;

BIODIVERSITY;

DINOSAUR; HISTOLOGY; PALEONTOLOGY;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BODY GROWTH; BODY SIZE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DINOSAUR; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; HISTOLOGY; LIFE HISTORY; LONG BONE; NONHUMAN; ONTOGENY; PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT; PLATEOSAURUS ENGELHARDTI; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSAUROPOD; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; UPPER TRIASSIC; ANIMAL; BONE; BONE DEVELOPMENT; CLASSIFICATION; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; FEMUR; FOSSIL; GERMANY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; SWITZERLAND; THERMOREGULATION;

ANIMALIA; AVES; DINOSAURIA; MAMMALIA; REPTILIA;

ANIMALS; BODY SIZE; BODY TEMPERATURE REGULATION; BONE AND BONES; BONE DEVELOPMENT; DINOSAURS; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; FEMUR; FOSSILS; GERMANY; MALE; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 29144532120     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1120125     Document Type: Article

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