Skeletal muscle fiber types in the ghost crab, Ocypode quadrata: Implications for running performance

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 212, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 673-683

  Perry, Michael J ^a   Tait, Jennifer ^a   Hu, John ^a   White, Scott C ^a   Medler, Scott ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

Ghost crab; Muscle fiber type; Skeletal muscle

Indexed keywords

ISOPROTEIN; MYOSIN HEAVY CHAIN; TROPONIN I; TROPONIN T;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; BRACHYURA; CELL SIZE; CHEMISTRY; CYTOLOGY; DNA SEQUENCE; LIZARD; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOUSE; NEPHROPIDAE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYSIOLOGY; RUNNING; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SKELETAL MUSCLE;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BIOMECHANICS; BRACHYURA; CELL SIZE; LIZARDS; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUSCLE FIBERS, SKELETAL; MYOSIN HEAVY CHAINS; NEPHROPIDAE; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; RUNNING; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TROPONIN I; TROPONIN T;

ANIMALIA; CRUSTACEA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); INVERTEBRATA; MAMMALIA; OCYPODE QUADRATA; OCYPODIDAE; SQUAMATA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 62849126327     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jeb.023481     Document Type: Article

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