Ultrastructural design of anuran muscles used for call production in relation to the thermal environment of a species

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 204, Issue 8, 2001, Pages 1445-1457

  Ressel, Stephen J ^a  

^a Policy and Design   (United States)

Author keywords

Anuran; Frog; Hylidae; Mitochondria; Muscle capillarity; Ranidae; Skeletal muscle; Thermal adaptation; Ultrastructure; Vocalization

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; AEROBIC METABOLISM; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CAPILLARY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FROGS AND TOADS; HISTOLOGY; MALE; MITOCHONDRION; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TEMPERATURE; ULTRASTRUCTURE; VASCULARIZATION; VOCALIZATION;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; AEROBIOSIS; ANIMALS; ANURA; CAPILLARIES; MALE; MITOCHONDRIA; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TEMPERATURE; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

ANIMALIA; ANURA; HYLA; HYLA MICROCEPHALA; HYLIDAE; MAMMALIA; MICROCEPHALA; PSEUDACRIS; PSEUDACRIS CRUCIFER; RANA CLAMITANS; RANA SYLVATICA; RANIDAE;

EID: 0035745028     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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