Inheritance of sutural pattern at the pterion in rhesus monkey skulls

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

Volumn 288, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 1042-1049

  Wang, Qian ^a   Opperman, Lynne A ^a   Havill, Lorena M ^b   Carlson, David S ^a   Dechow, Paul C ^a  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF DENTISTRY   (United States)

^b SOUTHWEST FOUNDATION FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Cranial sutures; Genetics; Pedigree; Primate; Variation

Indexed keywords

PTERION; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CRANIAL SUTURE; HUMAN; HUMAN VERSUS ANIMAL COMPARISON; INHERITANCE; NONHUMAN; PEDIGREE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; RHESUS MONKEY; SIBLING; SKULL; SPECIES COMPARISON; SPHENOID;

ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; CRANIAL SUTURES; FEMALE; FRONTAL BONE; HUMANS; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; PARIETAL BONE; PEDIGREE; PHENOTYPE; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SPHENOID BONE; TEMPORAL BONE; ZYGOMA;

MACACA MULATTA; PRIMATES; SIMIIFORMES;

EID: 33749474040     PISSN: 0003276X     EISSN: 15524892     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ar.a.20373     Document Type: Article

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