Axial elongation in fishes: Using morphological approaches to elucidate developmental mechanisms in studying body shape

Integrative and Comparative Biology

Volumn 50, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1106-1119

  Ward, Andrea B ^a   Mehta, Rita S ^b  

^a ADELPHI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; BODY SIZE; CLASSIFICATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; EVOLUTION; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FISH; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HISTOLOGY; LOCOMOTION; MORPHOGENESIS; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BODY PATTERNING; BODY SIZE; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FISHES; LOCOMOTION; PHYLOGENY;

ACTINOPTERYGII; NEMICHTHYIDAE; PISCES;

EID: 78649520568     PISSN: 15407063     EISSN: 15577023     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icb/icq029     Document Type: Conference Paper

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