Function and hydrostatics in the telson of the Burgess Shale arthropod Burgessia

Biology Letters

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 376-379

  Lin, Jih Pai ^a,b  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Animal behaviour; Arthropod telson; Burgessia; Fossil preservation; Limulus

Indexed keywords

ARTHROPOD; BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; BIOMECHANICS; FOSSIL; HYDROSTATICS; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTHROPOD; ARTICLE; FOSSIL; HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE; LIMULUS; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALIA; ARTHROPODA; LIMULUS;

EID: 67649097471     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2008.0740     Document Type: Article

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