Body size and food properties account for much of the variation in the hard tissue
morphology of the masticatory system whereas their influence on the soft tissue anatomy …

The jaw adductor muscles in strepsirrhines were dissected and their fiber architecture was
quantified. Bite force and leverage were estimated using values for physiological cross …

Analyses of masticatory muscle architecture—specifically fascicle length (FL; a correlate of
muscle stretch and contraction speed) and physiological cross‐sectional area (PCSA; a …

Despite great interest and decades of research, the musculoskeletal relationships of the
masticatory system in primates are still not fully understood. However, without a clear …

Jaw‐muscle electromyographic (EMG) patterns indicate that compared with thick‐tailed
galagos and ring‐tailed lemurs, anthropoids recruit more relative EMG from their balancing …

Dietary ecology and its relationship with both muscle architecture and bite force potential
has been studied in many mammalian (and non‐mammalian) taxa. However, despite the …

The jaw adductor muscles provide the input force for breaking down food. How much force a
muscle produces is a function of many variables. Two of the most significant variables are …

By combining muscle architectural data with biomechanical variables relating to the jaw, we
produce anatomically derived maximum bite force estimations for 23 species of catarrhine …

Objectives Platyrrhines span two orders of magnitude in body size and are characterized by
diverse feeding behaviors and diets. While size plays an important role in primate feeding …

Increasingly, analyses of craniodental dietary adaptations take into account mechanical
properties of foods. However, masticatory muscle fiber architecture has been described for …