Microanatomical and Histological Features in the Long Bones of Mosasaurine Mosasaurs (Reptilia, Squamata) - Implications for Aquatic Adaptation and Growth Rates

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 2013, Pages

  Houssaye, Alexandra ^a   Lindgren, Johan ^b   Pellegrini, Rodrigo ^c   Lee, Andrew H ^d   Germain, Damien ^e   Polcyn, Michael J ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c New Jersey State Museum   (United States)

^d MIDWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

^f SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMNIOTE; ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ANIMAL STRUCTURES; ANIMAL TISSUE; AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; ARTICLE; BASAL METABOLIC RATE; BONE MASS; CONVERGENT EVOLUTION; DALLASAURUS; DERMOCHELYS; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; EXTANT SPECIES; FEMUR; GROWTH RATE; HISTOLOGY; HUMERUS; LONG BONE; MOSASAURUS; NONHUMAN; OSTEOCYTE; PELAGIC SPECIES; PHYLOGENY; REPTILE; RIB; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SQUAMATE; TURTLE; VERTEBRA;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; AQUATIC ORGANISMS; BASAL METABOLISM; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BONE AND BONES; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; REPTILES;

EID: 84885712986     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0076741     Document Type: Article

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