Validating methods for estimating endocranial volume in individual red deer (Cervus elaphus)

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 92, Issue , 2013, Pages 143-146

  Logan, Corina J ^a   Clutton Brock, Tim H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bead filling; Cervus elaphus; CT scan; Endocranial volume; Linear; Methods

Indexed keywords

BODY SIZE; BRAIN; COGNITION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CRANIUM; DEER; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; INDIVIDUAL VARIATION; METHODOLOGY; TOMOGRAPHY;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BEAD METHOD; BRAIN SIZE; CALIPER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; FEMALE; HEIGHT; MALE; NONHUMAN; RED DEER; VALIDATION PROCESS; VOLUMETRY;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; CEPHALOMETRY; DEER; FEMALE; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; ORGAN SIZE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SKULL; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

ANIMALIA; CERVUS ELAPHUS;

EID: 84871937998     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: 18728308     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2012.10.015     Document Type: Article

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