Morphological integration in mammalian limb proportions: Dissociation between function and development

Evolution

Volumn 63, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 749-766

  Schmidt, Manuela ^a   Fischer, Martin S ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

Functional morphology; Limb evolution; Scaling; Serial homology

Indexed keywords

BIOMECHANICS; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; LIMB; MAMMAL; MORPHOLOGY; POSTURE; SKELETON;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; EVOLUTION; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; LIMB; MAMMAL; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; EVOLUTION; EXTREMITIES; HUMANS; MAMMALS;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 60849101534     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: 15585646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2008.00583.x     Document Type: Article

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