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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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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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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 |