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| Title |
Effects of Gape and Tooth Position on Bite Force and Skull Stress in the Dingo (Canis lupus dingo) Using a 3-Dimensional Finite Element Approach
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| Published in |
PLOS ONE, May 2008
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| DOI | 10.1371/journal.pone.0002200 |
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| Authors |
Jason Bourke, Stephen Wroe, Karen Moreno, Colin McHenry, Philip Clausen |
| Abstract |
Models of the mammalian jaw have predicted that bite force is intimately linked to jaw gape and to tooth position. Despite widespread use, few empirical studies have provided evidence to validate these models in non-human mammals and none have considered the influence of gape angle on the distribution of stress. Here using a multi-property finite element (FE) model of Canis lupus dingo, we examined the influence of gape angle and bite point on both bite force and cranial stress. Bite force data in relation to jaw gape and along the tooth row, are in broad agreement with previously reported results. However stress data showed that the skull of C. l. dingo is mechanically suited to withstand stresses at wide gapes; a result that agreed well with previously held views regarding carnivoran evolution. Stress data, combined with bite force information, suggested that there is an optimal bite angle of between 25 degrees and 35 degrees in C. l. dingo. The function of these rather small bite angles remains unclear. |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 205 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 5 | 2% |
| Brazil | 4 | 2% |
| Argentina | 2 | <1% |
| India | 2 | <1% |
| Turkey | 1 | <1% |
| Ghana | 1 | <1% |
| United Arab Emirates | 1 | <1% |
| Australia | 1 | <1% |
| Colombia | 1 | <1% |
| Other | 4 | 2% |
| Unknown | 183 | 89% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Researcher | 43 | 21% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 34 | 17% |
| Student > Master | 29 | 14% |
| Student > Bachelor | 18 | 9% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 16 | 8% |
| Other | 42 | 20% |
| Unknown | 23 | 11% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 105 | 51% |
| Environmental Science | 28 | 14% |
| Earth and Planetary Sciences | 27 | 13% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 5 | 2% |
| Engineering | 4 | 2% |
| Other | 5 | 2% |
| Unknown | 31 | 15% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 4. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 01 October 2017.
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#7,203,930
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Outputs from PLOS ONE
#85,330
of 194,252 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#27,813
of 82,366 outputs
Outputs of similar age from PLOS ONE
#200
of 349 outputs
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