Postnatal long bone growth in terrestrial placental mammals: Allometry, life history, and organismal traits

Journal of Morphology

Volumn 273, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1111-1126

  Kilbourne, Brandon M ^a,b   Makovicky, Peter J ^a  

^a FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Allometry; Long bones; Mammals; Ontogeny

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BASAL METABOLIC RATE; BODY SIZE; BONE; BONE DEVELOPMENT; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HISTOLOGY; MAMMAL; PHYSIOLOGY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; BASAL METABOLISM; BODY SIZE; BONE AND BONES; BONE DEVELOPMENT; MAMMALS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EUTHERIA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 84866149626     PISSN: 03622525     EISSN: 10974687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmor.20048     Document Type: Article

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