Contractile properties of muscles used in sound production and locomotion in two species of gray tree frog

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 202, Issue 22, 1999, Pages 3215-3223

  Marsh, Richard L ^a  

^a NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

External oblique muscle; Force velocity curve; Hyla chrysoscelis; Hyla versicolor; Laryngeal dilator muscle; Muscle mechanics; Sartorius muscle; Skeletal muscle; Sound production; Tree frog; Twitch kinetics

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; FROGS AND TOADS; LARYNX; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MUSCLE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; PHYSIOLOGY; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SOUND; VOCALIZATION;

ANIMALS; ANURA; BIOMECHANICS; LARYNX; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MUSCLES; SOUND; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 0033227439     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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