How to build your dragon: scaling of muscle architecture from the world’s smallest to the world’s largest monitor lizard

BACKGROUND: The functional design of skeletal muscles is shaped by conflicting selective pressures between support and propulsion, which becomes even more important as animals get larger. If larger animals were geometrically scaled up versions of smaller animals, increases in body size would cause a...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Dick, Taylor J. M., Clemente, Christofer J.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2016
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Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4758084/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26893606
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12983-016-0141-5

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4758084/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26893606
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12983-016-0141-5

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