The Influence of Maximum Running Speed on Eye Size: A Test of Leuckart's Law in Mammals

Anatomical Record

Volumn 295, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1053-1062

  Heard Booth, Amber N ^a   Kirk, E Christopher ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Cursoriality; Eye size; Leuckart's law; Locomotion; Mammalia; Visual acuity

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BODY SIZE; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; EYE; EYE AXIS LENGTH; LOCOMOTION; MAMMAL; NONHUMAN; ORGAN SIZE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RUNNING; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; VELOCITY; VERTEBRATE; VISUAL ACUITY;

ANIMALS; BIOMECHANICS; BIOMETRY; EYE; MAMMALS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; ORGAN SIZE; RUNNING; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

ANIMALIA; AVES; MAMMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84860916446     PISSN: 19328486     EISSN: 19328494     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ar.22480     Document Type: Article

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