Specialisations of swimming muscles in the pelagic antarctic fish Pleuragramma antarcticum

• Published in: Marine Biology
• Main Authors: Johnston, I.A., Camm, J.-P., White, M.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Springer 1988
• Subjects: Biology and Microbiology; Antarctic; South Shetland Islands; Ner; Antarc*; Antarctic silverfish
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/521654/; https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00392949

The distribution and ultrastructure of muscle-fibre types has been investigated in adult and juvenile specimens of the pelagic high-antarctic silverfish Pleuragramma antarcticum Boulenger, 1902 collected from the South Shetland Islands during the winter of 1984/1985. Two main fibre-types were identi...