Higher masseter muscle mass in grazing than in browsing ruminants

Oecologia

Volumn 157, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 377-385

  Clauss, Marcus ^a   Hofmann, Reinold R ^b   Streich, W Jürgen ^c   Fickel, Jörns ^c   Hummel, Jürgen ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research ^*  (Germany)

^c LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR ZOO AND WILDLIFE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Browser; Grazer; Masseter; Morphology; Phylogeny

Indexed keywords

BODY MASS; BROWSING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECOPHYSIOLOGY; FORAGE; GRASS; GRAZING; MASS; MORPHOLOGY; MORPHOMETRY; MUSCLE; RUMINANT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; BOVIDS; DIET; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; MALE; MASSETER MUSCLE; METABOLISM; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; POACEAE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; DIET; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; MALE; MASSETER MUSCLE; PHYLOGENY; POACEAE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RUMINANTS;

BOVIDAE;

EID: 49449111724     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-008-1093-z     Document Type: Article

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