Biting performance in teeth-digging African mole-rats (Fukomys, Bathyergidae, Rodentia)

Physiological and Biochemical Zoology

Volumn 82, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 40-50

  Van Daele, P A A G ^a   Herrel, Anthony ^b,c   Adriaens, Dominique ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLOMETRY; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; GEOPHYTE; HABITAT TYPE; INTERSPECIFIC VARIATION; MORPHOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENETICS; RODENT; SKULL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TAXONOMY;

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC CONGO; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; HISTOLOGY; MOLE RAT; MORPHOMETRICS; PHYSIOLOGY; SKULL; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; THEORETICAL MODEL; TOOTH; ZAMBIA;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHTS AND MEASURES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MOLE RATS; SKULL; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TOOTH; ZAMBIA;

ANIMALIA; BATHYERGIDAE; CRYPTOMYS HOTTENTOTUS; RATTUS; RODENTIA;

EID: 58849106025     PISSN: 15222152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/594379     Document Type: Conference Paper

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