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Development of limb bone laminarity in the homing pigeon (Columba livia)

BACKGROUND: Birds show adaptations in limb bone shape that are associated with resisting locomotor loads. Whether comparable adaptations occur in the microstructure of avian cortical bone is less clear. One proposed microstructural adaptation is laminar bone in which the proportion of circumferentia...

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Autores principales: McGuire, Rylee S., Ourfalian, Raffi, Ezell, Kelly, Lee, Andrew H.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: PeerJ Inc. 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7485507/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33194361
http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9878