Limb bone scaling in hopping macropods and quadrupedal artiodactyls

Bone adaptation is modulated by the timing, direction, rate and magnitude of mechanical loads. To investigate whether frequent slow, or infrequent fast, gaits could dominate bone adaptation to load, we compared scaling of the limb bones from two mammalian herbivore clades that use radically differen...

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Main Authors: Michael Doube, Alessandro A. Felder, Melissa Y. Chua, Kalyani Lodhia, Michał M. Kłosowski, John R. Hutchinson, Sandra J. Shefelbine
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The Royal Society 2018-01-01
Series:Royal Society Open Science
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Online Access:https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rsos.180152