Brief communication: Noninvasive measuring of operational tongue length in callitrichids

American Journal of Physical Anthropology

Volumn 139, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 430-433

  Heymann, Eckhard W ^a   Von Der Lage, Foelke ^a  

^a GERMAN PRIMATE CENTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Callithrix; Leontopithecus; Oral biology; Saguinus

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTHROPOIDEA; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; LEONTOPITHECUS; MANDIBLE; MARMOSET; NON INVASIVE PROCEDURE; NONHUMAN; SPECIES COMPARISON; TONGUE;

EID: 67649622823     PISSN: 00029483     EISSN: 10968644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.21038     Document Type: Article

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