Behavioral evidence for the evolution of walking and bounding before terrestriality in sarcopterygian fishes

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 108, Issue 52, 2011, Pages 21146-21151

  King, Heather M ^a   Shubin, Neil H ^a   Coates, Michael I ^a   Hale, Melina E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; ARTICLE; BODY MOVEMENT; BOUNDING; FIN (ORGAN); FISH; FOSSIL; GAIT; LIMB; LOCOMOTION; NONHUMAN; PELVIC GIRDLE; PELVIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTOPTERUS ANNECTENS; SARCOPTERYGIAN FISH; TERRESTRIAL SPECIES; WALKING;

AMPHIBIANS; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BIOMECHANICS; FISHES; FOSSILS; GAIT; HINDLIMB; LOCOMOTION; VIDEO RECORDING;

PISCES; PROTOPTERUS ANNECTENS; TETRAPODA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84855474444     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1118669109     Document Type: Article

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