The variability of cranial morphology in modern horses

Zoological Science

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 289-298

  Komosa, Marcin ^a   Moliński, Krzysztof ^a   Godynicki, Szymon ^a  

^a POZNA UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Poland)

Author keywords

Canonical discriminant analysis; Cranium; Horse; Osteometry; Principal components analysis

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CEPHALOMETRY; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HORSE; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SKULL; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; CEPHALOMETRY; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HORSES; MALE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SKULL; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EQUIDAE; EQUUS CABALLUS;

EID: 33744476168     PISSN: 02890003     EISSN: 02890003     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2108/zsj.23.289     Document Type: Article

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