Evolution of high-performance swimming in sharks: Transformations of the musculotendinous system from subcarangiform to thunniform swimmers

Journal of Morphology

Volumn 267, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 477-493

  Gemballa, Sven ^a,e   Konstantinidis, Peter ^a   Donley, Jeanine M ^b   Sepulveda, Chugey ^c   Shadwick, Robert E ^d  

^a Systematic Zoology   (Germany)

^b MiraCosta College   (United States)

^c Pfleger Institute of Environmental Research   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Lamnidae; Myoseptal tendons; Red muscles; Scyliorhinidae; Squalidae; Swimming mechanics

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; CHEMISTRY; CYTOLOGY; EVOLUTION; FAST MUSCLE FIBER; HISTOLOGY; MUSCLE CELL; PHYSIOLOGY; SHARK; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SWIMMING; TENDON;

ANIMALS; EVOLUTION; MODELS, ANATOMIC; MUSCLE FIBERS; MUSCLE FIBERS, FAST-TWITCH; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; SHARKS; SWIMMING; TENDONS;

CHONDRICHTHYES; ETMOPTERUS SPINAX; GALEUS; ISURUS; ISURUS OXYRINCHUS; LAMNIDAE; OSTEICHTHYES; SCOMBRIDAE; SCOMBRIDAE GEN. SP.; SCYLIORHINIDAE; SCYLIORHINUS CANICULA; SQUALEA; SQUALIDAE;

EID: 33645519480     PISSN: 03622525     EISSN: 10974687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmor.10412     Document Type: Article

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