Modularity of the rodent mandible: Integrating bones, muscles, and teeth

Evolution and Development

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 756-768

  Zelditch, Miriam Leah ^a   Wood, Aaron R ^a   Bonett, Ronald M ^a,b   Swiderski, Donald L ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TULSA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BONE; CORRELATION; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; MORPHOGENESIS; MUSCLE; RODENT;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL FOOD; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BONE; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; HISTOLOGY; MANDIBLE; MUSCLE; PEROMYSCUS; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; TOOTH;

ANIMAL FEED; ANIMALS; BONE AND BONES; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; MANDIBLE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUSCLES; PEROMYSCUS; TOOTH;

RODENTIA;

EID: 55049098094     PISSN: 1520541X     EISSN: 1525142X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1525-142X.2008.00290.x     Document Type: Article

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