Microanatomy of the mandibular symphysis in lizards: Patterns in fiber orientation and Meckel's cartilage and their significance in cranial evolution

Anatomical Record

Volumn 293, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1350-1359

  Holliday, Casey M ^a   Gardner, Nicholas M ^b   Paesani, Sylvia M ^c   Douthitt, Mallory ^b   Ratliff, Jack L ^d  

^a University of Missouri   (United States)

^b MARSHALL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MARSHALL UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d BioMimetic Therapeutics Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Arthrology; Feeding; Mandibular symphysis; Plasticity; Reptile

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN FIBER;

ARTICLE; CARTILAGE; DRINKING; HISTOLOGY; JOINT; LIZARD; MANDIBULAR SYMPHYSIS; MASTICATION; MECKEL CARTILAGE; MORPHOLOGICAL ADAPTATION; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKULL; SYNAPOMORPHY; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EVOLUTION; IGUANIDAE; MANDIBLE;

ANIMALS; CARTILAGE; EVOLUTION; IGUANAS; JOINTS; LIZARDS; MANDIBLE; SKULL; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION;

ANGUIMORPHA; GEKKONIDAE; IGUANIA; LACERTOIDEA; REPTILIA; SCINCOMORPHA; SQUAMATA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 77955643451     PISSN: 19328486     EISSN: 19328494     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ar.21180     Document Type: Article

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