Quantifying the effect of gape and morphology on bite force: biomechanical modelling and in vivo measurements in bats

Does whole-organism performance constrain resource use? A community test with desert lizards

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Adaptive plasticity in the mouse mandible

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SELECTION FOR MECHANICAL ADVANTAGE UNDERLIES MULTIPLE CRANIAL OPTIMA IN NEW WORLD LEAF-NOSED BATS

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Another one bites the dust: Bite force and ecology in three caviomorph rodents (Rodentia, Hystricognathi)

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Bite force is limited by the force-length relationship of skeletal muscle in black carp, Mylopharyngodon piceus

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Afferent sensory mechanisms involved in jaw gape-related muscle activation in unilateral biting

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Does shape co-variation between the skull and the mandible have functional consequences? A 3D approach for a 3D problem

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Bite Force Estimation and the Fiber Architecture of Felid Masticatory Muscles

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Understanding phylogenetic incongruence: lessons from phyllostomid bats

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DIETARY HARDNESS, LOADING BEHAVIOR, AND THE EVOLUTION OF SKULL FORM IN BATS

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The Jaw Adductors of Strepsirrhines in Relation to Body Size, Diet, and Ingested Food Size

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The better to eat you with: functional correlates of tooth structure in bats

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Vertical stratification of Neotropical leaf-nosed bats (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae) revealed by stable carbon isotopes

(2011) Katja Rex et al.   JOURNAL OF TROPICAL ECOLOGY

All You Can Eat: High Performance Capacity and Plasticity in the Common Big-Eared Bat, Micronycteris microtis (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae)

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Morphological innovation, diversification and invasion of a new adaptive zone

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Mechanics of bite force production and its relationship to diet in bats

(2010) Sharlene E. Santana et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Predicting bite force in mammals: two-dimensional versus three-dimensional lever models

(2010) J. L. Davis et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Morphological correlates of bite force and diet in the skull and mandible of phyllostomid bats

(2009) Marcelo R. Nogueira et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Cranial dimensions and forces of biting in the domestic dog

(2009) Jennifer Lynn Ellis et al.   JOURNAL OF ANATOMY

Connecting behaviour and performance: the evolution of biting behaviour and bite performance in bats

(2009) S. E. SANTANA et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

The morphology of the masticatory apparatus facilitates muscle force production at wide jaw gapes in tree-gouging common marmosets (Callithrix jacchus)

(2009) C. M. Eng et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Roost Making in Bats—Adaptations for Excavating Active Termite Nests

(2009) Dina K. N. Dechmann et al.   JOURNAL OF MAMMALOGY

Gape and bite force in the rodentsOnychomys leucogasterandPeromyscus maniculatus: Does jaw-muscle anatomy predict performance?

(2009) Susan H. Williams et al.   JOURNAL OF MORPHOLOGY

The biting and feeding habits of the Vampire bat, Desmodus rotundus*

(2009) Arthur M. Greenhall   JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY

Implications of predatory specialization for cranial form and function in canids

(2009) G. J. Slater et al.   JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY

Built to bite: cranial design and function in the wrinkle-faced bat

(2009) E. R. Dumont et al.   JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY

Bite force in vertebrates: opportunities and caveats for use of a nonpareil whole-animal performance measure

(2008) ROGER A. ANDERSON et al.   BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

The vector of jaw muscle force as determined by computer-generated three dimensional simulation: A test of Greaves’ model

(2008) Philip Clausen et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOMECHANICS

Diet and Trophic Structure in a Community of Fruit-Eating Bats in Lacandon Forest, México

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Morphological and mechanical determinants of bite force in bats: do muscles matter?

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