Archives of Oral Biology
Volume 54, Issue 8 , Pages 772-782 , August 2009

Jaw and hyolingual muscle activity patterns and bite forces in the herbivorous lizard Uromastyx acanthinurus

  • Anthony Herrel

      Affiliations

    • Département d’Ecologie et de Gestion de la Biodiversité, Museum National d’Histoire Naturelle, 57 rue Cuvier, Case postale 55, 75231, Paris Cedex 5, France
    • Department of Biology, University of Antwerp, Universiteitsplein 1, B-2610 Antwerp, Belgium
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +33-140798120; fax: +33-140793773.
    • ,
  • Frits De Vree

      Affiliations

    • Department of Biology, University of Antwerp, Universiteitsplein 1, B-2610 Antwerp, Belgium

,Accepted 4 May 2009.

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doi: 10.1016/j.archoralbio.2009.05.002

Archives of Oral Biology
Volume 54, Issue 8 , Pages 772-782 , August 2009

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