Hand Preference in Rhinopithecus roxellana Infants: Is It Influenced by Familial Inheritance?
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Study Site and Species
2.2. Data Collection
2.3. Data Analyses
3. Results
3.1. Hand Preference in Infants
3.2. Hand Preference in Adults
3.3. Relationship between Infants and Their Parents
4. Discussion
5. Conclusions
Author Contributions
Funding
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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Number | Sex | L/R | HI | z-Score | Handedness |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Female | 34/13 | −0.45 | −3.06 | Left |
2 | Female | 24/10 | −0.41 | −2.40 | Left |
3 | Male | 7/24 | 0.55 | 3.05 | Right |
4 | Female | 24/12 | −0.33 | −2.00 | Left |
5 | Male | 25/7 | −0.56 | −3.18 | Left |
6 | Female | 20/15 | −0.14 | −0.85 | Ambidextrous |
7 | Male | 11/23 | 0.35 | 2.06 | Right |
8 | Male | 28/12 | −0.40 | −2.53 | Left |
9 | Male | 30/10 | −0.50 | −3.16 | Left |
Number | Mother | Father | ||||||||
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Name | L/R | HI | z-Score | Handedness | Name | L/R | HI | z-Score | Handedness | |
1 | QB | 28/6 | −0.65 | −3.77 | Left | HD | 46/5 | −0.80 | −5.74 | Left |
2 | MB | 36/8 | −0.64 | −4.22 | Left | |||||
3 | FB | 36/17 | −0.36 | −2.61 | Left | |||||
4 | XF | 32/4 | −0.78 | −4.67 | Left | DX | 7/81 | 0.84 | 7.89 | Right |
5 | PP | 41/7 | −0.71 | −4.91 | Left | |||||
6 | KD | 2/38 | 0.90 | 5.69 | Right | YQ | 6/22 | 0.57 | 3.02 | Right |
7 | CY | 32/6 | −0.68 | −4.22 | Left | |||||
8 | YK | 3/42 | 0.87 | 5.81 | Right | BD | 44/15 | −0.49 | −3.78 | Left |
9 | LS | 19/53 | 0.47 | 4.01 | Right | XL | 64/17 | −0.58 | −5.22 | Left |
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Fu, W.-W.; Ren, Y.; Wang, C.-L.; Wang, X.-W.; Li, B.-G. Hand Preference in Rhinopithecus roxellana Infants: Is It Influenced by Familial Inheritance? Symmetry 2020, 12, 1905. https://doi.org/10.3390/sym12111905
Fu W-W, Ren Y, Wang C-L, Wang X-W, Li B-G. Hand Preference in Rhinopithecus roxellana Infants: Is It Influenced by Familial Inheritance? Symmetry. 2020; 12(11):1905. https://doi.org/10.3390/sym12111905
Chicago/Turabian StyleFu, Wei-Wei, Yi Ren, Cheng-Liang Wang, Xiao-Wei Wang, and Bao-Guo Li. 2020. "Hand Preference in Rhinopithecus roxellana Infants: Is It Influenced by Familial Inheritance?" Symmetry 12, no. 11: 1905. https://doi.org/10.3390/sym12111905