Age estimation in the Mediterranean bottlenose dolphin Tursiops truncatus (Montagu 1821) by bone density of the thoracic limb

Journal of Anatomy

Volumn 211, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 639-646

  Butti, Camilla ^a   Corain, Livio ^a   Cozzi, Bruno ^a   Podestà, Michela ^b   Pirone, Andrea ^c   Affronte, Marco ^d   Zotti, Alessandro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b Natural History Museum of Milan   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^d Fondazione Cetacea Onlus   (Italy)

Author keywords

Age determination; Bone density; Bottlenose dolphin; Growth; Thoracic limb

Indexed keywords

AGE DETERMINATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BONE DENSITY; BONE GROWTH; BONE MATRIX; BOTTLENOSE DOLPHIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENSITOMETRY; FEMALE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LIMB; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STUDENT T TEST; TOOTH;

ABSORPTIOMETRY, PHOTON; AGE DETERMINATION BY SKELETON; ANIMALS; BIOMETRY; BONE DENSITY; BONES OF UPPER EXTREMITY; BOTTLE-NOSED DOLPHIN; FEMALE; MALE;

ANIMALIA; ODONTOCETI; TURSIOPS; TURSIOPS TRUNCATUS;

EID: 35448951232     PISSN: 00218782     EISSN: 14697580     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-7580.2007.00805.x     Document Type: Article

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