Motor Control during Amphibious Locomotion Changes Muscle Function in Polypterus Senegalus

Polypterus is an extant fish that is used as a model to understand the fin-to-limb evolutionary transition. Polypterus exhibits muscle phenotypes relevant to this transition. In particular, plastic changes in bone and muscle in Polypterus have been shown in response to spending time in a terrestrial...

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Main Author: Liang, Lisha
Other Authors: Standen, Emily
Format: Others
Language:en
Published: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa 2021
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10393/42970
http://dx.doi.org/10.20381/ruor-27187