Swimming away or clamming up: The use of phasic and tonic adductor muscles during escape responses varies with shell morphology in scallops

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 215, Issue 23, 2012, Pages 4131-4143

  Tremblay, Isabelle ^a,b   Guderley, Helga E ^a,b   Himmelman, John H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^b INSTITUT DES SCIENCES DE LA MER DE RIMOUSKI   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bivalve; Force recording; Interspecific comparisons; Locomotion; Muscle contraction

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CANADA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ESCAPE BEHAVIOR; FOOD CHAIN; HISTOLOGY; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PHYSIOLOGY; SCALLOP; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SWIMMING; TOUCH;

ANIMALS; AUSTRALIA; CANADA; ESCAPE REACTION; FOOD CHAIN; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; PECTINIDAE; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; SWIMMING; TOUCH PERCEPTION;

AMUSIUM BALLOTI; BIVALVIA; CRASSADOMA GIGANTEA; MIMACHLAMYS ASPERRIMA; PECTEN FUMATUS; PECTINIDAE; PLACOPECTEN MAGELLANICUS;

EID: 84869166859     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jeb.075986     Document Type: Article

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