Migration- and exercise-induced changes to flight muscle size in migratory birds and association with IGF1 and myostatin mRNA expression

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 214, Issue 17, 2011, Pages 2823-2831

  Price, Edwin R ^a   Bauchinger, Ulf ^b   Zajac, Daria M ^a   Cerasale, David J ^c   McFarlan, Jay T ^d   Gerson, Alexander R ^a   McWilliams, Scott R ^b   Guglielmo, Christopher G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

^c Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

Avian; Hypertrophy; IGF1; Muscle size; Myostatin; Phenotypic flexibility; Splice variant; TLL1; Zugunruhe

Indexed keywords

AVIAN PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; MYOSTATIN; SOMATOMEDIN C;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PECTORALIS MAJOR MUSCLE; POPULATION MIGRATION; SEASON; SPARROW; STARLING;

ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; AVIAN PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; INSULIN-LIKE GROWTH FACTOR I; MYOSTATIN; PECTORALIS MUSCLES; PHYSICAL CONDITIONING, ANIMAL; RNA, MESSENGER; SEASONS; SPARROWS; STARLINGS;

AVES; PASSERIDAE; STURNIDAE; STURNUS VULGARIS; ZONOTRICHIA ALBICOLLIS;

EID: 80051777498     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jeb.057620     Document Type: Article

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