Linking the evolution of body shape and locomotor biomechanics in bird-line archosaurs

Nature

Volumn 497, Issue 7447, 2013, Pages 104-107

  Allen, Vivian ^a,b   Bates, Karl T ^c   Li, Zhiheng ^d,e   Hutchinson, John R ^b  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b ROYAL VETERINARY COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^d INSTITUTE OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY AND PALEOANTHROPOLOGY   (China)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMECHANICS; BIRD; BODY SHAPE; DATA ACQUISITION; EVOLUTION; MOVEMENT; NUMERICAL MODEL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEM;

ARCHOSAUR; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; BODY BUILD; EVOLUTION; FORELIMB; GROUND REACTION FORCE; HAMSTRING; HINDLIMB; LOCOMOTION; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PELVIC GIRDLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REPTILE;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BIOMECHANICS; BIRDS; DINOSAURS; FEATHERS; FLIGHT, ANIMAL; HINDLIMB; LOCOMOTION; MODELS, ANATOMIC; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHYLOGENY;

ARCHAEOPTERYX; ARCHOSAURIA; AVES; DEINONYCHOSAURIA; MANIRAPTORA; NEORNITHES; THEROPODA;

EID: 84877576724     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature12059     Document Type: Article

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