Vertebral dimensions vary among prehensile and nonprehensile primate tails
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Caudal vertebral body articular surface morphology correlates with functional tail use in anthropoid primates.
Prehensile tails, capable of suspending the entire body weight of an animal, have evolved in parallel in New World monkeys (Platyrrhini): once in the Atelinae (Alouatta, Ateles, Brachyteles, Lagothrix), and once in the Cebinae (Cebus, Sapajus). Structurally, the prehensile tails of atelines and cebines share morphological features that distinguish them from nonprehensile tails, including longer...
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عنوان ژورنال: The FASEB Journal
سال: 2012
ISSN: 0892-6638,1530-6860
DOI: 10.1096/fasebj.26.1_supplement.723.6