Limb bone scaling in hopping diprotodonts and quadrupedal artiodactyls
(2018)
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Doube, M., Felder, A. A., Chua, M. Y., Lodhia, K., Klosowski, M. M., Hutchinson, J. R., & Shefelbine, S. J. Limb bone scaling in hopping diprotodonts 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 mam... Read More about Limb bone scaling in hopping diprotodonts and quadrupedal artiodactyls.