Biomechanical assessment of evolutionary changes in the lepidosaurian skull

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 106, Issue 20, 2009, Pages 8273-8277

  Moazen, Mehran ^a   Curtis, Neil ^a   O'Higgins, Paul ^b   Evans, Susan E ^c   Fagan, Michael J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biomechanics; Lepidosauria; Lower temporal bar; Streptostyly

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; BONE STRESS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER MODEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOLUTIONARY DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; IMMOBILIZATION; MASTICATION; NONHUMAN; OSTEOLYSIS; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPTILE; SKULL DEVELOPMENT; TEMPORAL BONE;

ANIMALS; BIOMECHANICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVOLUTION; FOSSILS; KINESIS; LIZARDS; SKULL;

LEPIDOSAURIA; SQUAMATA; UROMASTYX; UROMASTYX HARDWICKII;

EID: 66249109960     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0813156106     Document Type: Article

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