A 3D Interactive Model and Atlas of the Jaw Musculature of Alligator mississippiensis

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Holliday, Casey M ^a   Tsai, Henry P ^a   Skiljan, Rebecca J ^a   George, Ian D ^a   Pathan, Sami ^a  

^a University of Missouri   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADDUCTOR MANDIBULAE EXTERNUS MEDIALIS; ADDUCTOR MANDIBULAE EXTERNUS PROFUNDUS; ADDUCTOR MANDIBULAE EXTERNUS SUPERFICIALIS; ADDUCTOR MANDIBULAE POSTERIOR; ALLIGATOR; ALLIGATOR MISSISSIPPIENSIS; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BRAIN; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DEPRESSOR MANDIBULAE; FEEDING APPARATUS; INTRAMANDIBULARIS; JAW MUSCLE; MICRO-COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NONHUMAN; PSEUDOTEMPORALIS PROFUNDUS; PSEUDOTEMPORALIS SUPERFICIALIS; PTERYGOIDEUS DORSALIS; PTERYGOIDEUS VENTRALIS; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SKULL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; THREE DIMENSIONAL INTERACTIVE MODEL; TRIGEMINAL NERVE;

ALLIGATORS AND CROCODILES; ANIMALS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; JAW; MODELS, ANATOMIC; MUSCLES; SKULL; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TRIGEMINAL NERVE;

ALLIGATOR; ALLIGATOR MISSISSIPPIENSIS; CROCODYLIDAE (ALL CROCODILES);

EID: 84878763087     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0062806     Document Type: Article

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