Three-Dimensional Geometric Morphometric Analysis of Talar Morphology in Extant Gorilla Taxa from Highland and Lowland Habitats

Anatomical Record

Volumn 298, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 277-290

  Knigge, Ryan P ^a   Tocheri, Matthew W ^b,c   Orr, Caley M ^d   Mcnulty, Kieran P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

^c THE GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d MIDWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Arboreality; Foot; Talus; Tarsals; Terrestriality

Indexed keywords

GORILLA BERINGEI; GORILLA GORILLA; GORILLA GORILLA GORILLA;

ADAPTATION; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; BIOMECHANICS; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; GORILLA; MALE; MATHEMATICS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; TALUS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; WEIGHT BEARING;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BIOMECHANICAL PHENOMENA; CLASSIFICATION; ECOSYSTEM; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; GORILLA GORILLA; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALE; MATHEMATICS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PHYLOGENY; TALUS; WEIGHT-BEARING;

EID: 84919723226     PISSN: 19328486     EISSN: 19328494     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ar.23069     Document Type: Article

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