Biomechanical consequences of rapid evolution in the polar bear lineage

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 11, 2010, Pages

  Slater, Graham J ^a   Figueirido, Borja ^b   Louis, Leeann ^c   Yang, Paul ^a   van Valkenburgh, Blaire ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÁLAGA   (Spain)

^c Cornell University Museum of Vertebrates ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; CARNIVORE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRANIOMETRY; DIETARY INTAKE; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; HERBIVORE; MALE; MASTICATION; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; OMNIVORE; PALEONTOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; POLAR BEAR; SKULL; SPECIES COMPARISON; ANIMAL; BEAR; CARNIVORA; CLASSIFICATION; EVOLUTION; HISTOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SKELETAL MUSCLE;

URSIDAE; URSUS ARCTOS; URSUS MARITIMUS;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BIOMECHANICS; CARNIVORA; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; MALE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PHYLOGENY; SKULL; URSIDAE;

EID: 78149480078     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0013870     Document Type: Article

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