A Comparative Assessment of the Size of the Frontal Air Sinus in the Giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis)

Anatomical Record

Volumn 294, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 931-940

  Badlangana, N Ludo ^a,b   Adams, Justin W ^a,c   Manger, Paul R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOTSWANA   (Botswana)

^c GRAND VALLEY STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Crania; Cranial ontogeny; Mammalia; Natural selection; Osteology; Sexual selection

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ARTIODACTYLA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EVALUATION; EXAMINATION; FEMALE; FRONTAL SINUS; HYPOTHESIS; MALE; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKULL; VOLUMETRY;

AGE FACTORS; AIR; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; ARTIODACTYLA; CAMELS; FEMALE; FRONTAL SINUS; MALE; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

ARTIODACTYLA; CRANIA; GIRAFFA CAMELOPARDALIS; GIRAFFIDAE; MAMMALIA;

EID: 79956286288     PISSN: 19328486     EISSN: 19328494     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ar.21401     Document Type: Article

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