Reports

Program No.17-014

Functional morphological study of hominoid thoracic skeleton.

KAGAYA MIYUKI

Period of invitation: 22th Oct,2005 - 20th Dec,2005

At the three institutes, 77 specimens were measured. To quantify thoracic cage shape, each pair of ribs and corresponding vertebrates were articulated and photographed from the cranial and lateral directions. From the photographs, rib cage contour were digitized and fitted into three-dimensional Bezier curve to extract variables which characterize the curvatures. Vertebral body length, manubrium width, clavicle length, scapular length, and angle of humeral torsion were also measured for analyzing relation to the rib cage shape.Data of thoracic skeleton of Indriid specimens were collected at Berlin Natural History Museum. Orang-utan and silvery lutung were measured at State Zoological Collection, Munich. Hominoid and New World monkey specimens were measured at University of Zurich. I exchanged information of current research progresses with Prof. Dr. Zollikofer and members of the laboratory at University of Zurich. I visited exhibition of Berlin Natural History Museum which is educative to demonstrate why and how to collect, keep, and manage the specimens.

Natural History Museum of Berlin

Zoological Collection of State, München

University of Zürich

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