From flat foot to fat foot: Structure, ontogeny, function, and evolution of elephant "sixth toes"

Science

Volumn 334, Issue 6063, 2011, Pages 1699-1703

  Hutchinson, John R ^a   Delmer, Cyrille ^b   Miller, Charlotte E ^a   Hildebrandt, Thomas ^c   Pitsillides, Andrew A ^a   Boyde, Alan ^d  

^a ROYAL VETERINARY COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

^b DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^c LEIBNIZ INSTITUT IM FORSCHUNGSVERBUND BERLIN E V   (Germany)

^d QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BONE; ELEPHANT; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; FOSSIL RECORD; LIMB; MORPHOLOGY; ONTOGENY; OSTEOLOGY;

ARTICLE; CARPAL BONE; ELEPHANT; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; FOOT; FOSSIL; NONHUMAN; ONTOGENY; OSSIFICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SESAMOID BONE; TARSAL BONE;

EID: 84455194213     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1211437     Document Type: Article

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