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Development of the ultrastructure of sonic muscles: a kind of neoteny?

BACKGROUND: Drumming muscles of some sound-producing fish are ‘champions’ of contraction speed, their rate setting the fundamental frequency. In the piranha, contraction of these muscles at 150 Hz drives a sound at the same frequency. Drumming muscles of different not closely related species show ev...

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Autores principales: Millot, Sandie, Parmentier, Eric
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3924398/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24507247
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2148-14-24