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The jaw is a second-class lever in Pedetes capensis (Rodentia: Pedetidae)

The mammalian jaw is often modelled as a third-class lever for the purposes of biomechanical analyses, owing to the position of the resultant muscle force between the jaw joint and the teeth. However, it has been proposed that in some rodents the jaws operate as a second-class lever during distal mo...

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Autor principal: Cox, Philip G.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: PeerJ Inc. 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5581530/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28875081
http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3741