Three-dimensional limb joint mobility in the early tetrapod Ichthyostega

Nature

Volumn 486, Issue 7404, 2012, Pages 523-526

  Pierce, Stephanie E ^a,b   Clack, Jennifer A ^b   Hutchinson, John R ^a  

^a ROYAL VETERINARY COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY MUSEUM OF ZOOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANATOMY; DEVONIAN; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; LOCOMOTION; MOBILITY; MORPHOLOGY; SPECIALIZATION; SWIMMING BEHAVIOR; TETRAPOD; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

ABDUCTION; ACETABULUM; ADDUCTION; ARTICLE; BODY POSTURE; FEMUR HEAD; FORELIMB; HINDLIMB; HIP; ICHTHYOSTEGA; JOINT FUNCTION; JOINT MOBILITY; KNEE FUNCTION; LIMB MOVEMENT; LOCOMOTION; MICRO-COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANGE OF MOTION; ROTATION; SHOULDER; TETRAPOD; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALLIGATORS AND CROCODILES; AMPHIBIANS; ANIMALS; EXTREMITIES; FOSSILS; HISTORY, ANCIENT; JOINTS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOVEMENT; OTTERS; PLATYPUS; POSTURE; SEALS, EARLESS; SKELETON; SWIMMING; URODELA; WALKING;

ICHTHYOSTEGA; PISCES; TETRAPODA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84862981432     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature11124     Document Type: Article

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