Allometric patterning in the limb skelet
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Sharon M. Swartz
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Article
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1997
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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Allometric analysis was employed to compare linear dimensions of forelimb and hindlimb bones (humeri, radii, third and fifth metacarpals, third and fifth manual phalanges, femora, and tibiae) of 227 species of bats and 105 species of nonvolant mammals of varying degrees of phylogenetic affinity to b