A functional‐morphometric analysis of forelimbs in bipedal and quadrupedal heteromyid rodents

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 1993, Pages 339-360

  PRICE, MARY V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

body form reconstruction; Chaelodipus; digging ability; Dipodomys; Heteromys; interspecific allometry; Liomys; Microdipodops; morphology; performance; Perognathus; seed harvest rate; soil associations

Indexed keywords

EID: 38248999356     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: 10958312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.1993.tb00936.x     Document Type: Article

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