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Alligators employ intermetatarsal reconfiguration to modulate plantigrade ground contact
Feet must mediate substrate interactions across an animal's entire range of limb poses used in life. Metatarsals, the ‘bones of the sole’, are the dominant pedal skeletal elements for most tetrapods. In plantigrade species that walk on the entirety of their sole, such as living crocodylians, in...
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| Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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The Company of Biologists Ltd
2021
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8214830/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34086907 http://dx.doi.org/10.1242/jeb.242240 |