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Scale effects and morphological diversification in hindlimb segment mass proportions in neognath birds

INTRODUCTION: In spite of considerable work on the linear proportions of limbs in amniotes, it remains unknown whether differences in scale effects between proximal and distal limb segments has the potential to influence locomotor costs in amniote lineages and how changes in the mass proportions of...

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Autor principal: Kilbourne, Brandon M
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4038374/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24876886
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1742-9994-11-37