Functional and Evolutionary significance of the recruitment and firing patterns of the jaw adductors during chewing in verreaux's sifaka (Propithecus verreauxi)

American Journal of Physical Anthropology

Volumn 145, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 531-547

  Hylander, William L ^a,d   Vinyard, Christopher J ^b   Wall, Christine E ^a   Williams, Susan H ^c   Johnson, Kirk R ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORTHEAST OHIO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c OHIO UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Ohio University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

biomechanics; electromyography; mastication; strepsirrhines; wishboning

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRANIOFACIAL MORPHOLOGY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOOD INTAKE; JAW MOVEMENT; JAW MUSCLE; LEMURIDAE; MALE; MANDIBLE; MASSETER MUSCLE; MASTICATION; MASTICATORY MUSCLE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NONHUMAN; PROPITHECUS VERREAUXI; PROSIMIAN; SIMIAN; TEMPORALIS MUSCLE;

ANIMALS; BIOMECHANICS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; JAW; MALE; MASTICATION; MASTICATORY MUSCLES; STREPSIRHINI;

EID: 79960166664     PISSN: 00029483     EISSN: 10968644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.21529     Document Type: Article

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