Morphological variation in the seahorse vertebral system

International Journal of Morphology

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 247-262

  Bruner, Emilano ^a   Bartolino, Valerio ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROME FORO ITALICO   (Italy)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Axial skeleton; Metamery; Seahorse; Serial homology; Shape analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 56849104610     PISSN: 07179367     EISSN: 07179502     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4067/S0717-95022008000200002     Document Type: Review

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