Integration, heterochrony, and adaptation in pedal digits of syndactylous marsupials

BMC Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2008, Pages

  Weisbecker, Vera ^a   Nilsson, Maria ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; COVARIANCE; INTEGRATION; LOCOMOTION; MARSUPIAL; NONHUMAN; ONTOGENY; OSSIFICATION; PHYLOGENY; SYNDACTYLY; TARSAL BONE; VARIANCE; ANIMAL; BONE DEVELOPMENT; EVOLUTION; FORELIMB; HINDLIMB; HISTOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

DIPROTODONTIA; METATHERIA;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; EVOLUTION; FORELIMB; HINDLIMB; MARSUPIALIA; OSTEOGENESIS; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 47249115667     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712148     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-8-160     Document Type: Article

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