Neuromuscular organization of avian flight muscle: Architecture of single muscle fibres in muscle units of the pectoralis (pars thoracicus) of pigeon (Columba livia)

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 354, Issue 1385, 1999, Pages 917-925

  Sokoloff, A J ^a,b   Goslow Jr , G E ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Flight muscle; In series fibre; Muscle fibre morphology; Muscle unit

Indexed keywords

AVES; COLUMBA; COLUMBA LIVIA; GALLIFORMES;

EID: 0033614589     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.1999.0443     Document Type: Article

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