Novel muscle and connective tissue design enables high extensibility and controls engulfment volume in lunge-feeding rorqual whales

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 216, Issue 14, 2013, Pages 2691-2701

  Shadwick, Robert E ^a   Goldbogen, Jeremy A ^b   Potvin, Jean ^c   Pyenson, Nicholas D ^d   Vogl, A Wayne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b CASCADIA RESEARCH COLLECTIVE   (United States)

^c Saint Louis University   (United States)

^d DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Balaenopteridae; Collagen; Elastin; Muscle morphology; Ventral groove blubber

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN; ELASTIN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BALAENOPTERIDAE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOMECHANICS; CONNECTIVE TISSUE; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; HISTOLOGY; LOCOMOTION; MUSCLE MORPHOLOGY; OROPHARYNX; PHYSIOLOGY; SKELETAL MUSCLE; VENTRAL GROOVE BLUBBER; WHALE;

BALAENOPTERIDAE; COLLAGEN; ELASTIN; MUSCLE MORPHOLOGY; VENTRAL GROOVE BLUBBER;

ANIMALS; BIOMECHANICAL PHENOMENA; CONNECTIVE TISSUE; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; LOCOMOTION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; OROPHARYNX; WHALES;

EID: 84880101066     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jeb.081752     Document Type: Article

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