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Select forelimb muscles have evolved superfast contractile speed to support acrobatic social displays

Many species perform rapid limb movements as part of their elaborate courtship displays. However, because muscle performance is constrained by trade-offs between contraction speed and force, it is unclear how animals evolve the ability to produce both unusually fast appendage movement and limb force...

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Autores principales: Fuxjager, Matthew J, Goller, Franz, Dirkse, Annika, Sanin, Gloria D, Garcia, Sarah
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4829423/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27067379
http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.13544

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