The cranial musculature of turtles

Palaeontologia Electronica

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 1-99

  Werneburg, Ingmar ^a,b  

^a RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research   (Japan)

^b PALÄONTOLOGISCHES INSTITUT UND MUSEUM   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Homology; Innervation; Musculature; Ontogeny; Sauropsida; Testudines

Indexed keywords

APOPTOSIS; CRANIUM; HOMOLOGY; MUSCLE; NOMENCLATURE; ONTOGENY; TERMINOLOGY; TURTLE;

PLEURODIRA; SAUROPSIDA; TESTUDINES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 79959844293     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10948074     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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