Functional implications of ubiquitous semicircular canal non-orthogonality in mammals

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 11, 2013, Pages

  Berlin, Jeri C ^a   Kirk, E Christopher ^a   Rowe, Timothy B ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ANGLE SYMMETRY; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPLANARITY; GEOMETRY; HEAD MOVEMENT; MAMMAL; NONHUMAN; ORTHOGONALITY; PHYLOGENY; SEMICIRCULAR CANAL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VESTIBULAR FUNCTION; VESTIBULAR STIMULATION;

ANIMALS; MAMMALS; SEMICIRCULAR CANALS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84896689349     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0079585     Document Type: Article

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