Limb bone loading in swimming turtles: changes in loading facilitate transitions from tubular to flipper-shaped limbs during aquatic invasions

Members of several terrestrial vertebrate lineages have returned to nearly exclusive use of aquatic habitats. These transitions were often accompanied by changes in skeletal morphology, such as flattening of limb bone shafts. Such morphological changes might be correlated with the exposure of limb b...

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Published in:Biol Lett
Main Authors: Young, Vanessa K Hilliard, Blob, Richard W.
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: The Royal Society 2015
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Biomechanics
Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4528462/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26085496
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2015.0110
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