Morphology of the carpal region in some rodents with special emphasis on hystricognaths

Acta Zoologica

Volumn 95, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 220-238

  Prochel, Jan ^a   Begall, Sabine ^b   Burda, Hynek ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

^c CZECH UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES PRAGUE   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Carpal bones; Os posthamatum; Phylogeny; Rodentia; Sesamoid bones; Skeletal development

Indexed keywords

BONE; CONVERGENT EVOLUTION; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; INTERSPECIFIC VARIATION; LIMB; MORPHOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; RODENT; SKELETON;

ARVICOLA; CAVIOMORPHA; CTENODACTYLIDAE; CTENODACTYLUS GUNDI; CTENOMYS OPIMUS; ELIOMYS QUERCINUS; ERETHIZON DORSATUM; HELIOPHOBIUS ARGENTEOCINEREUS; HYSTRICOGNATHI; HYSTRIX CRISTATA; LAGOSTOMUS MAXIMUS; MARMOTA; MARMOTA MARMOTA; MERIONES UNGUICULATUS; MYOXUS GLIS; ONDATRA; ONDATRA ZIBETHICUS; RODENTIA; SCIUROGNATHI; SPALACOPUS CYANUS; SPALAX;

EID: 84896317078     PISSN: 00017272     EISSN: 14636395     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/azo.12022     Document Type: Article

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