Biting Performance and Skull Biomechanics of a Chisel Tooth Digging Rodent (Ctenomys tuconax; Caviomorpha; Octodontoidea)

Journal of Experimental Zoology Part A: Ecological Genetics and Physiology

Volumn 319, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 74-85

  Becerra, Federico ^a   Casinos, Adrià ^b   Vassallo, Aldo Iván ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE MAR DEL PLATA   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; ECOSYSTEM; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; INCISOR; MALE; MASTICATION; PHYSIOLOGY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RODENT; SKULL; SOUTH AMERICA;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BIOMECHANICS; BITE FORCE; ECOSYSTEM; FEMALE; INCISOR; MALE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RODENTIA; SKULL; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 84873640467     PISSN: 19325223     EISSN: 19325231     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jez.1770     Document Type: Article

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