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New Insights into Muscle Function during Pivot Feeding in Seahorses

Seahorses, pipefish and their syngnathiform relatives are considered unique amongst fishes in using elastic recoil of post-cranial tendons to pivot the head extremely quickly towards small crustacean prey. It is known that pipefish activate the epaxial muscles for a considerable time before striking...

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Autores principales: Van Wassenbergh, Sam, Dries, Billy, Herrel, Anthony
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4185880/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25271759
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0109068