Histomorphology of the penis bone (baculum) in the gray long-eared bat Plecotus austriacus (Chiroptera, Vespertilionidae)

Anatomical Record

Volumn 293, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1248-1258

  Herdina, Anna Nele ^a,b,c   Herzig Straschil, Barbara ^a   Hilgers, Helge ^b   Metscher, Brian D ^b   Plenk Jr , Hanns ^c  

^a NATURHISTORISCHES MUSEUM WIEN   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^c MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Bone; Function; Ground sections; Microradiography; Os penis; Osteon; Species identification; X ray microtomography

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN FIBER;

ARTICLE; BACULUM; BAT; BONE; CORPUS CAVERNOSUM; HISTOLOGY; MICRO-COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; MICRORADIOGRAPHY; MICROSCOPY; MORPHOLOGY; PENIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TUNICA ALBUGINEA; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; HAVERSIAN CANAL; MALE; RADIOGRAPHY;

ANIMALS; BONE AND BONES; CHIROPTERA; HAVERSIAN SYSTEM; MALE; PENIS; X-RAY MICROTOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 77954601869     PISSN: 19328486     EISSN: 19328494     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ar.21148     Document Type: Article

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