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Limb bone loading in swimming turtles: changes in loading facilitate transitions from tubular to flipper-shaped limbs during aquatic invasions

Vanessa K Hilliard Young, Richard W. Blob
Published 17 June 2015.DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2015.0110
Vanessa K Hilliard Young
Department of Biological Sciences, Clemson University, Clemson, SC 29634, USA
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Department of Biological Sciences, Clemson University, Clemson, SC 29634, USA
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DOI 
https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2015.0110
PubMed 
26085496
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The Royal Society
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1744-9561
Online ISSN 
1744-957X
History 
  • Received February 13, 2015
  • Accepted May 28, 2015
  • Published online June 17, 2015.
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Limb bone loading in swimming turtles: changes in loading facilitate transitions from tubular to flipper-shaped limbs during aquatic invasions

Vanessa K Hilliard Young, Richard W. Blob
Biol. Lett. 2015 11 20150110; DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2015.0110. Published 17 June 2015

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