Unique suites of trabecular bone features characterize locomotor behavior in human and non-human anthropoid primates

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2012, Pages

  Ryan, Timothy M ^a   Shaw, Colin N ^a,b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALOUATTA; ANATOMIC LANDMARK; ANATOMICAL CONCEPTS; ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL STRUCTURES; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; BABOON; BONE STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMUR; HIGH RESOLUTION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; HUMERUS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LOCOMOTION; MACACA; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; ORANG UTAN; PAN; PRIMATE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SYMPHALANGUS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TRABECULAR BONE; TRACHYPITHECUS;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; ANTHROPOMETRY; BONE AND BONES; HAPLORHINI; HUMANS; HUMERAL HEAD; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MOVEMENT; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PHYLOGENY; PRIMATES; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; STRESS, MECHANICAL; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

ALOUATTA; MACACA; MAMMALIA; PAPIO; PONGO; PRIMATES; SIMIIFORMES; SYMPHALANGUS; TRACHYPITHECUS;

EID: 84864004551     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0041037     Document Type: Article

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