Why go bipedal? Locomotion and morphology in Australian agamid lizards

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 211, Issue 13, 2008, Pages 2058-2065

  Clemente, Christofer J ^a   Withers, Philip C ^b   Thompson, Graham ^c   Lloyd, David ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c EDITH COWAN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Acceleration; Agamids; Bipedal; Dragon lizards; Endurance; Locomotion; Sprint speed

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BODY SIZE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EVOLUTION; FORELIMB; HINDLIMB; HISTOLOGY; LIZARD; LOCOMOTION; PHYSIOLOGY; RUNNING; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ACCELERATION; ANIMALS; AUSTRALIA; BODY SIZE; EVOLUTION; FORELIMB; HINDLIMB; LIZARDS; LOCOMOTION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RUNNING; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

AGAMIDAE; SQUAMATA;

EID: 47949109554     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jeb.018044     Document Type: Article

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