Morphological integration and natural selection in the postcranium of wild Verreaux's sifaka (Propithecus verreauxi verreauxi)

American Journal of Physical Anthropology

Volumn 136, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 204-213

  Lawler, Richard R ^a  

^a Boston University   (United States)

Author keywords

Correlational selection; Development; Graph theory; Locomotion; Modularity

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; GENETIC TRAIT; MORPHOLOGY; NATURAL SELECTION; NONHUMAN; PRIMATE; SKULL; SKULL DEVELOPMENT;

AGING; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; BONE DEVELOPMENT; FEMUR; FORELIMB; HINDLIMB; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOTOR ACTIVITY; SELECTION (GENETICS); SKULL; STREPSIRHINI; TIBIA;

EID: 44349171660     PISSN: 00029483     EISSN: 10968644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.20795     Document Type: Article

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