Clavicle, a neglected bone: Morphology and relation to arm movements and shoulder architecture in primates

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

Volumn 288, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 944-953

  Voisin, Jean Luc ^a  

^a MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

Author keywords

Brachiation; Catyrrhine; Clavicle; Hominoid; Locomotion; Platyrrhine; Shoulder

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYTIC METHOD; ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTHROPOIDEA; APE; ARM MOVEMENT; ARTICLE; BONE EXAMINATION; BONE STRUCTURE; CLAVICLE; CLAVICLE CURVATURE; COLOBINAE; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; GORILLA; HAPLORHINI; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; MONKEY; NONHUMAN; OSTEOMETRY; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCAPULA; SPECIES COMPARISON; SPIDER; THORAX;

ANIMALS; ARM; CLAVICLE; EVOLUTION; HAPLORHINI; HUMANS; LOCOMOTION; MOVEMENT; PHYLOGENY; SHOULDER; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

ATELES; ATELES SP.; COLOBUS; HOMINOIDEA; HYLOBATES; PAPIO; PONGO; PRIMATES; PROCOLOBUS;

EID: 33748120545     PISSN: 0003276X     EISSN: 15524892     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ar.a.20354     Document Type: Article

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