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First description of a musculoskeletal linkage in an adipose fin: innovations for active control in a primitively passive appendage

Adipose fins are enigmatic appendages found between the dorsal and caudal fins of some teleostean fishes. Long thought to be vestigial, degenerate second dorsal fins, remnants of the primitive gnathostome condition, adipose fins have since been recognized as novel morphologies. Unique among the fins...

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Autores principales: Stewart, Thomas A., Hale, Melina E.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Royal Society 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3574436/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23135670
http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2012.2159