Exploring Femoral Diaphyseal Shape Variation in Wild and Captive Chimpanzees by Means of Morphometric Mapping: A Test of Wolff's Law

Anatomical Record

Volumn 294, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 589-609

  Morimoto, Naoki ^a   De León, Marcia S Ponce ^a   Zollikofer, Christoph P E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Cross sectional geometry; Cylindrical parameterization; Femur; Functional bone adaptation; Geometric morphometrics; Long bone; Ontogeny

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; CHIMPANZEE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICAL BONE; DIAPHYSIS; FEMUR; GEOMETRY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MORPHOLOGY; MORPHOMETRICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WOLFF REARRANGEMENT;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; ANTHROPOMETRY; BIOMECHANICS; BONE REMODELING; DIAPHYSES; FEMALE; FEMUR; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PAN TROGLODYTES; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; WEIGHT-BEARING; X-RAY MICROTOMOGRAPHY;

PAN; PAN TROGLODYTES; PAN TROGLODYTES TROGLODYTES;

EID: 79952727538     PISSN: 19328486     EISSN: 19328494     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ar.21346     Document Type: Article

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