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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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| Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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BioMed Central
2016
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| 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 |