Not enough skeletons in the closet: Collections-based anatomical research in an age of conservation conscience

Anatomical Record

Volumn 297, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 344-348

  Bell, Christopher J ^a   Mead, Jim I ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b EAST TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Computed tomography; Morphology; Skeletal variation; Squamata

Indexed keywords

COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; MORPHOLOGY; SKELETAL VARIATION; SQUAMATA;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BONE AND BONES; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; FOSSILS; REPTILES; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SPECIMEN HANDLING; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84894273296     PISSN: 19328486     EISSN: 19328494     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ar.22852     Document Type: Article

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