Members of several terrestrial vertebrate lineages have returned to nearly exclusive use of aquatic habitats. These transitions were often accompanied by changes in skeletal morphology, such as flattening of limb bone shafts. Such morphological changes might be correlated with the exposure of limb bones to altered loading. Though the environmental forces acting on the skeleton differ substantially between water and land, no empirical data exist to quantify the impact of such differences on the skeleton, either in terms of load magnitude or regime. To test how locomotor loads change between water and land, we compared in vivo strains from femora of turtles (Trachemys scripta) during swimming and terrestrial walking. As expected, strain magni...
Locomotion imposes some of the highest loads upon the skeleton, and diverse bone designs have evolve...
Because morphology directly influences an organism's ability to utilize its habitat and dietary reso...
The lifestyle of extinct tetrapods is often difficult to assess when clear morphological adaptations...
Members of several terrestrial vertebrate lineages have returned to nearly exclusive use of aquatic ...
During evolutionary reinvasions of water by terrestrial vertebrates, ancestrally tubular limb bones ...
The transition from aquatic to terrestrial habitats was an event in vertebrate evolution that preced...
SUMMARY Studies of limb bone loading during terrestrial locomotion have focused primarily on birds a...
Specialization for a new habitat often entails a cost to performance in the ancestral habitat. Altho...
Transitions between water and land have occurred multiple times in vertebrate evolutionary history. ...
Variations in musculoskeletal lever systems have formed an important foundation for predictions abou...
Previous analyses of ground reaction force (GRF) and kinematic data from river cooter turtles (Pseud...
Turtles are an iconic lineage in studies of animal locomotion, typifying the use of slow, alternatin...
First, in three places in the article, the reported value of yield stress in torsion for the femur o...
Locomotion imposes some of the highest loads upon the skeleton, and diverse bone designs have evolve...
Locomotion imposes some of the highest loads upon the skeleton, and diverse bone designs have evolve...
Locomotion imposes some of the highest loads upon the skeleton, and diverse bone designs have evolve...
Because morphology directly influences an organism's ability to utilize its habitat and dietary reso...
The lifestyle of extinct tetrapods is often difficult to assess when clear morphological adaptations...
Members of several terrestrial vertebrate lineages have returned to nearly exclusive use of aquatic ...
During evolutionary reinvasions of water by terrestrial vertebrates, ancestrally tubular limb bones ...
The transition from aquatic to terrestrial habitats was an event in vertebrate evolution that preced...
SUMMARY Studies of limb bone loading during terrestrial locomotion have focused primarily on birds a...
Specialization for a new habitat often entails a cost to performance in the ancestral habitat. Altho...
Transitions between water and land have occurred multiple times in vertebrate evolutionary history. ...
Variations in musculoskeletal lever systems have formed an important foundation for predictions abou...
Previous analyses of ground reaction force (GRF) and kinematic data from river cooter turtles (Pseud...
Turtles are an iconic lineage in studies of animal locomotion, typifying the use of slow, alternatin...
First, in three places in the article, the reported value of yield stress in torsion for the femur o...
Locomotion imposes some of the highest loads upon the skeleton, and diverse bone designs have evolve...
Locomotion imposes some of the highest loads upon the skeleton, and diverse bone designs have evolve...
Locomotion imposes some of the highest loads upon the skeleton, and diverse bone designs have evolve...
Because morphology directly influences an organism's ability to utilize its habitat and dietary reso...
The lifestyle of extinct tetrapods is often difficult to assess when clear morphological adaptations...