Morphological analysis of the hindlimb in apes and humans. I. Muscle architecture

Journal of Anatomy

Volumn 208, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 709-724

  Payne, Rachel C ^a   Crompton, R H ^b   Isler, K ^c   Savage, R ^b   Vereecke, E E ^d   Gunther M M ^b   Thorpe, S K S ^b   D'Aout K ^d  

^a ROYAL VETERINARY COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Architecture; Leg; Locomotion; Morphology; Muscle; Primate; Tendon

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; APE; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE ANATOMY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FASCIA; FEMALE; GEOMETRY; HINDLIMB; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LEG MUSCLE; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MORPHOLOGICAL TRAIT; MUSCLE FUNCTION; MUSCLE LENGTH; MUSCLE MASS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TENDON;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; GORILLA GORILLA; HINDLIMB; HUMANS; HYLOBATES; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PAN PANISCUS; PONGO PYGMAEUS; TENDONS;

ANIMALIA; GORILLA GORILLA GORILLA; GORILLA GORILLA GRAUERI; HOMINIDAE; HYLOBATES LAR; HYLOBATES SP.; PAN PANISCUS; PONGO PYGMAEUS ABELII; PRIMATES;

EID: 33744471191     PISSN: 00218782     EISSN: 14697580     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-7580.2006.00563.x     Document Type: Article

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