Structural and functional imaging of bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) cranial anatomy

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 207, Issue 21, 2004, Pages 3657-3665

  Houser, Dorian S ^a   Finneran, James ^b   Carder, Don ^b   Van Bonn, William ^b   Smith, Cynthia ^b   Hoh, Carl ^c   Mattrey, Robert ^c   Ridgway, Sam ^b,c  

^a BIOMIMETICA   (United States)

^b Naval Command   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bottlenose dolphin; Cranium; CT; Echolocation; Hearing; Lipid density; PET; Scan; SPECT; Tursiops truncatus

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18;

AGE; AIR; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DOLPHIN; ECHOLOCATION; FEMALE; HEARING; HISTOLOGY; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOGRAPHY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SKULL; VASCULARIZATION;

AGE FACTORS; AIR; ANIMALS; DOLPHINS; ECHOLOCATION; FEMALE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HEARING; MALE; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; SKULL; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

CORYPHAENIDAE; CUCUMIS; TURSIOPS; TURSIOPS TRUNCATUS;

EID: 8444249372     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jeb.01207     Document Type: Article

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