Caecilian jaw-closing mechanics: Integrating two muscle systems

Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Volumn 5, Issue 29, 2008, Pages 1491-1504

  Kleinteich, Thomas ^a   Haas, Alexander ^a   Summers, Adam P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Amphibian cranial morphology; Automated measurement of muscle fibre angles; Bite force modelling; Gymnophiona; High resolution mCT

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; MASTICATION;

COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCAN; CRANIAL MORPHOLOGY; CROSS SECTIONAL AREA; GYMNOPHIONA; HIGH RESOLUTION; MECHANICAL ADVANTAGE; MUSCLE FIBRES; PHYSIOLOGICAL CROSS-SECTIONAL AREAS;

MUSCLE;

AMPHIBIA; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; HISTOLOGY; JAW; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; SKELETAL MUSCLE; THEORETICAL MODEL;

AMPHIBIANS; ANIMALS; BIOMECHANICS; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; JAW; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PHYLOGENY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 58749107170     PISSN: 17425689     EISSN: 17425662     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2008.0155     Document Type: Article

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