The functional correlates of jaw-muscle fiber architecture in tree-gouging and nongouging callitrichid monkeys

American Journal of Physical Anthropology

Volumn 139, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 353-367

  Taylor, Andrea B ^a,b   Eng, Carolyn M ^c   Anapol, Fred C ^d   Vinyard, Christopher J ^e  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

^e Northeastern Ohio Medical University   (United States)

Author keywords

Callitrichids; Exudativory; Fiber length; Jaw gape; Marmosets; Masseter muscle; Physiologic cross sectional area; Tamarins; Temporalis muscle

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTHROPOIDEA; ARTICLE; CALLITHRIX JACCHUS; CEBUELLA PYGMAEA; CONTROLLED STUDY; JAW; MARMOSET; MASSETER MUSCLE; MORPHOLOGY; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FORCE; MUSCLE MASS; MUSCLE STRETCHING; NONHUMAN; SAGUINUS OEDIPUS; TEMPORALIS MUSCLE; VELOCITY;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; ANTHROPOMETRY; BITE FORCE; CALLITRICHINAE; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; MASTICATORY MUSCLES; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FIBERS, SKELETAL; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 67649577104     PISSN: 00029483     EISSN: 10968644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.20991     Document Type: Article

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