Mechanoreceptivity of prehensile tail skin varies between ateline and cebine primates

Anatomical Record

Volumn 294, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 2064-2072

  Organ, Jason M ^a   Muchlinski, Magdalena N ^b   Deane, Andrew S ^b  

^a SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cebus; Glabrous friction pad; Mechanoreceptors; Platyrrhini; Sensory ecology

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CEBUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; HISTOLOGY; MECHANORECEPTOR; MEISSNER CORPUSCLE; MERKEL CELL; MERKEL DISC; NONHUMAN; PACINI CORPUSCLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RUFFINI ORGAN; SKIN; SQUIRREL MONKEY; TAIL; WOOLLY MONKEY;

ANIMALS; ATELINAE; CEBUS; MECHANORECEPTORS; SKIN; SKIN PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TAIL;

CEBUS; PLATYRRHINI; PRIMATES; SAIMIRI; VIBRIO;

EID: 81255205279     PISSN: 19328486     EISSN: 19328494     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ar.21505     Document Type: Article

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