Differential scaling of the long bones in the terrestrial carnivora and other mammals

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• Publication year

  1990

• Venue

  Journal of morphology

• Publication date

  1990-05-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1002/JMOR.1052040205PMID 2348461
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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